GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 686889
Should indicate when previewing an offline cached version
Last modified: 2021-07-05 11:30:50 UTC
When we're previewing an online document from our local cache, and we can't verify that the cache is up-to-date (for instance because we're not connected to the network), we should indicate this with an in-app notification.
We might have to teach the application to behave according to the network connectivity. I was trying to access some remote content at a conference with an authenticated gateway, and the application failed to understand that the remote storage is not accessible.
We have gotten a bit better at this. At least we no longer hit the network merely to check if something is already present in the cache. However, the original question remains.
This still seems like a good thing to have, although I probably wouldn't use an in-app notification for it - it would probably get in the way. One option might be to show the last sync date and time as a sub-heading, below the document title.
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