GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 83932
Disables auto-check when off-line; does not re-enable when back on-line
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I use a dial-up connection and this applet disables the auto-check when I'm not connected. It does not enable it again when I connect again (not a good answer) or give me an option to not have this happen (a good fix). This problem makes the appket useless for people with dial-ups.
Would be nice to fix, agreed, but not Urgent by any stretch.
*** Bug 89598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I beg to differ about this not being urgent. For anybody affected by this problem, the applet is virtually unusable. While the problem is easy to dismiss if it does not affect you, that does not change the fact that it is a serious problem. Since this did not happen in the applet that came with Gnome1.4, this manifests itself as a loss of functionality to people affected by the problem. Adding a simple checkbox to the config dialog that allows the user to tell the applet to ignore failures would go a long way to making everyone happier.
*** Bug 80853 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Yes, and there could be some special icon that indicates that the connection is broken. There could be a default icon to be used, if the respective "themes" haven't yet supplied a connection-broken-icon of their own.
*** Bug 100565 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 101103 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 13463 [details] [review] Patch to disable checking on errors
I just added a patch that I believe should fix this problem. It includes a boolean to hold the pref, a pref setting to control it, and changes to the help file to document the change.
Adding PATCH keyword.
I can also confirm that this bug makes this applet essentially useless to me. It'd be nice to get the patch in. It seems if I'm downloading a large file it "goes offline" even more often. Usually within minutes of the download starting. If I had a nickel everytime I rechecked that box... well... I'd have a couple dollars at least. :)
Moving mailcheck bugs to gnome-applets
*** Bug 108357 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think the patch is wrong. We shouldn't have a pref for this behavior. This behavior should just not occur (like any other applet that grabs stuff from the network). If the network is down then the applet should still try to fecth the information, but do nothing (or indicate a failure) if the retreival fails (nobody wants every application to pop up a dialog when the network is down). Removing the PATCH keyword. So the first step is to remove the error dialog and let the applet continue to try to retrieve the data. Then we can look into providing an indication that an error occured.
Fixed in cvs. The applet no longer pops up an error dialog and indicates the error in the tooltip and the label. I put in a FIXME about adding an icon for an error (or some other indication)
Does it still disable the checking for mail after it can't connect? The error message was not the problem.
No, it does not disable auto checking :)