testing needed: xfce4-mailwatch-plugin

Ori Bernstein rand_chars at rogers.com
Fri May 6 22:12:53 CEST 2005


On Fri, 06 May 2005 13:03:27 -0700
"Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> said:

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> Bernhard Walle wrote:
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> > If you add a invalid server, it displays a error dialog?
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> Nope.  Right now it doesn't do any GUI messaging at all.  I plan to add
> some, but I want it to be minimal: it would be really annoying if you
> leave in the morning, your internet connection goes down, and when you
> get home you have 40 error dialogs open.

How about putting an emblem over the icon (maybe an 'X' on a corner, or
something) as an unintrusive sign that something went wrong. A (right?) click
on the mailchecker would tell you what actually went wrong, possibly with a
'view errorlog' option.



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