GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635523
A gazillion stacked error messages
Last modified: 2021-05-19 11:57:27 UTC
evolution-2.91.2-1.fc15.x86_64 evolution-data-server-2.91.2-1.fc15.x86_64 With the new message box being used to show error messages in evolution, my connection to the IMAP server being flaky is causing some troubles. After leaving my mailer turned on for the night, I would get in the order of 50 stacked error messages, most of them the same, telling me that I disconnected from a particular server because the connection was reset by peer.
There's a lot of room for improvement in the new error message bar. I mentioned already on IRC that because we predefine error messages in XML files and give them all unique IDs, we can use that to find duplicate user alerts that haven't been dismissed yet. Perhaps put the new alert at the top of the stack and automatically dismiss the duplicates. That would cut down on the pile up. Another thing I want to do is sift through those error messages and distinguish between transient warnings (most) and serious errors (few). Warnings can dismiss themselves after a certain period, whereas errors should stay up until the user acknowledges them. That too would cut down on the pile up.
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