On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Daniel Atallah <datal...@pidgin.im> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 18:43, Francois Botha <igi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The other factor is: What should we do when we get a response that >>> doesn't contain the magic token? >>> Suppress any UI? >>> Pop up an error message? >>> >>> I'm probably in favor of the latter (displaying a message about >>> invalid content being received when checking for a new release). >> >> I'm very much in favor of the former. Otherwise I'm going to get an >> awful lot of popups. Keep in mind my Pidgin is open 24/7. Rather than >> a popup, what about an "inline error message", like what is currently >> used to indicate an update? > > Note that the update checking is only performed at most once a day. > > I suppose we could suppress the UI and only display information in the > debug log. The problem with this approach is that the user has no > indication that the release notification is not working properly. > > Sorry, I didn't mean to show a popup, just to have a minidialog > similar to the real release notification indicating that we were > unable to check for updates with the same link to the website (which > may or may not work in their browser, but at least if they click it, > they'll see the message from their annoying firewall).
The ideal behavior in my mind is to disable the plugin, show a minidialog with an error message (and a link to the website or whatever) and a "re-enable plugin" button. --Mark _______________________________________________ Support@pidgin.im mailing list Want to unsubscribe? Use this link: http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
