On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:59, Not Zed wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 01:07, Daniel Eriksson wrote: > > I use Evolution on my modem connected > > computer. My problem is that the online/offline > > state in Evolution doesn't reflect the real > > online/offline state of my computer. This can of > > course easily be solved by me clicking the > > online/offline button in Evolution every time i > > connect/disconnect to Internet. I have a proposal > > for a better solution though, just wanted to know > > what everybody else thinks about it. > > > > The solution is very easy. I would need a checkbox > > in the Evolution settings named something like > > "display annoying messages when no network found" > > (or maybe the negated version "silently discard > > network errors"). > > No its not really that easy at all. You can't just hide all errors > because you dont know which are network errors and which are something > else entirely. For example, the error messages from local mailboxes > such as 'out of disk space' are a bit more important, but currently they > just use the same error codes. > > I suggest you just learn to click offline, that is what its there for.
Another solution has been proposed on this list before: make Evolution respond to certain types of signals sent to it by another process by going on/off line (perhaps letting that process know when the change of state has completed). If Evolution had this feature, then the program that makes the computer go on/off line could do the same to Evolution. This is a very obvious feature. As things stand, when one wants to get off the Internet if one has a PPP connection, one has to manually set Evolution to offline mode. But making things happen automatically is what computers are for. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
