Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: evolution
When pressing the of offline/online button on Evolution's status bar,
the "Do you want to synchronize" dialog comes up an offers a checkbox to
disable this dialog in the future. If I choose to disable the dialog in
the future and then choose "do not synchronize", then future clicks on
the offline button will cause a synchronization.
I have a few issues with that behavior:
1. Its entirely not clear what Evolution will do in the future when you go
offline and the "quick offline" prompt is disabled - the dialog is ambiguous
about it at best and the user can easily surmise that Evolution will do the
same action as was chosen in the prompt, which is obviously not the case.
2. The user has no way to revert the action if they decide that they do not
want Evolution to synchronize every time they go offline. (I'm aware of the
gconf key, but its hardly discoverable).
3. There is no way to go quickly offline (i.e. without synchronization) and
without going through an interactive dialog. An interactive dialog is probably
not the very definition of "quick".
I'm reporting this here because this is where the "report a bug" menu
item took me here. I'll also open a ticket upstream.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Sep 13 21:32:39 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.27.92-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.32-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64
** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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Disabling Evolution's "quick offline" prompt always causes synchronization
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429008
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