Re: Usability problems in 2.3.17

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 08/30/2007 12:19:36 AM, Johan Brannlund wrote:
> Hi. I've noticed that Balsa seems to drop my imap connections much  
> morefrequently than it used to. If this is due to a balsa bug, a bug  
> in arelated library or server instability, I'm not sure.
>
> However, there is a problem with the way Balsa handles these  
> droppedconnections: for each dropped imap connection, it pops up a  
> dialog thatsays something like "Connection to imap.blah.blah dropped.  
> Abort?".
>
> If more than one connection is dropped, there's a bunch of these  
> popupsand they have to be clicked in exactly the right order,  
> otherwise nothinghappens. Also, since I have windows set to  
> auto-raise, the popups areoften hidden behind other windows. The  
> first time this happened, Ithought Balsa had just frozen, until I  
> discovered the popups.
>
> This is pretty bad behaviour usability-wise. I'm not sure what  
> thecorrect solution is. Maybe just a libnotify popup saying that  
> theconnection has been dropped?

I agree 100%. This was a failed experiment and the responsible code is  
disabled in the most recent balsa release. We have to solve the problem  
differently, it appears.

Pawel