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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdepim/kmail
From:       Till Adam <adam () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-04-14 16:44:58
Message-ID: 200504141845.09449.adam () kde ! org
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On Thursday 14 April 2005 16:26, Carsten Burghardt wrote:
> Till Adam sagte:
> > CVS commit by tilladam:
> >
> > Don't show a big ol' error dialog when the connection to an imap server
> > times out or gets broken. Write an informative string to the status
> > bar instead. Carsten, ok?
>
> Hmmm, yes. When you have an unstable connection this is probably less
> annoying. But what about people with a stable connection? When this breaks
> you probably will not notice a status msg. Especially because this will be
> overwritten very soon.
> Sounds like an offline feature where you could suspend the account...

Well, my connection drops a few times a day, for example, and the error 
message gets old very quickly even then. If you're on a wireless link with 
occasional drop outs, it becomes a major annoyance. I'm not sure if there is 
a reliable way to detect a stable or unstable connection, but to me the loss 
of information to users with a stable connection is outweighed by the reduced 
annoyance for the others. Also, since if the connection cannot be 
re-established when you change to another mail, for example, you _will_ get 
an error dialog, I think those with a stable connection which goes down are 
covered reasonably well.

> > Backport?
>
> Not sure. Is this really a fix? I know that there are some complaints
> about this error msg but it's not really a bug, is it.

Well, it's an annoyance. I'm not so sure myself. On the other hand, it's not 
dangerous either. Opinions?

Till

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