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Bug 549963 - Flooded with "User timeout caused connection failure"
Flooded with "User timeout caused connection failure"
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: postr
Classification: Other
Component: General
0.12
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Postr Maintainers
Postr Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-08-30 17:16 UTC by Claudio Saavedra
Modified: 2021-05-17 16:15 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
patch (8.65 KB, patch)
2010-07-09 01:14 UTC, Francisco Rojas 		none Details | Review

Description Claudio Saavedra 2008-08-30 17:16:45 UTC 
Don't know if I can blame my crappy internet connection or if this used to happen with my previous provider, but I get flooded by that warning dialog after opening postr. Definitively not a useful message at all.
Comment 1 Antonio Roberts 2009-11-04 21:00:01 UTC 
This also happens to me whilst using Postr on Ubuntu 9.10. It used to happen on a different laptop whilst using 9.04 too.
Comment 2 Quinn Dombrowski 2010-05-05 11:33:42 UTC 
I've had this problem on both Ubuntu 64-bit 9.04 and (currently) 9.10. There isn't anything actually wrong with my connection, but as soon as I add an image and go to add tags, title, etc. the warning message comes up. The couple times I didn't scramble to close the program immediately afterwards my whole system froze up.
Comment 3 Francisco Rojas 2010-05-05 15:00:19 UTC 
I agree the message should be useful and not flood with the same warning dialog.
Comment 4 Antonio Roberts 2010-06-05 00:47:10 UTC 
This is still happening with git master on Ubuntu 10.04
Comment 5 Francisco Rojas 2010-07-09 01:14:55 UTC 
Created attachment 165526 [details] [review]
patch

This bug is produced due some widgets that couldn't load some information from Flickr, such as tags, groups, etc.. Each widget throws an error dialog.

So far, the only thing the patch does is collect all the error messages in a single message dialog. So there isn't flood anymore, however the usability problem still exists, because if there was a connection problem, all the messages say the same.

I'm not sure if the user would like to know what went wrong or why, for example, What is best?, say that it couldn't load the groups or there was a connection problem or it couldn't load the groups due the connection problem. On the other hand, there is 6 different widgets loading data from flickr (status bar, groups selector, set combo, license combo, the avatar image and the tag entry) some of them are really dispensable. Also I'm not sure if a dialogue message is the best way to communicate it.
Comment 6 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-05-17 16:15:46 UTC 
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