On Thursday 14 April 2005 23:34, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 14 April 2005 18:44, Till Adam wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Add a "Don't annoy me again" checkbox to the error message and show a
> status message in any case.

Yup, agreed.


Carsten