Re: [Evolution] UI issue with failing connections and their dialogs

[Jon Nall <nall pa dec com>]

i had this happen about a week ago. i agree that some measure should be
taken not to have 100 error dialogs on the screen. 

i like the status bar idea. 

i dislike the idea of removing dialogs after some period of time. if
dialogs are to be the means by which the errors are reported, i think
the code should check to see if an error dialog is already displayed,
and only pop up a new one if it isn't.

nall. 

On 08 Aug 2001 23:50:02 +0200, Janne wrote:
> I just came home after being away for a day or so, and I've had
> Evolution running while away. For some reason, my network connection has
> been down most of the time I was away, and when Evo dutifully checked
> mail every ten minutes, it couldn't, and popped up a warning dialog -
> one dialog per server, every ten minutes for an entire night and day...
> Needless to say, that's a _lot_ of dialogs to click away.
>
> My suggestion (and I'd like a bit of feedback on this) would be to
> dispense with those dialogs entirely, and instead write a warning on the
> bottom toolbar thingy in the main window. This warning would remain
> until something else displayed a line on it (checking new mail,
> whatever), so that the user always can see whether the latest fetch
> worked.
>
> An alternative (but perhaps inferior) alternative would be to remove the
> dialogs after some time (1 minute, perhaps) even if they aren't clicked
> on.
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