On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 14:13 +1000, Nick Jenkins wrote: > > > > It would be a lot better if instead of greying out the > > > > "send/receive" button if it switched to saying "work online" > > > > > > > > I spent time wondering if I had been hacked because of this! > > > > > > Work offline should be transparent to the user. > > > > Besides, there's already an indicator of 'work offline' (a > > disconnected plug at the bottom-left). Its obvious what it means once > > you think to look. > > I'm kind of with the original poster. Surely "Send/receive" is > meaningless if you're offline? And over the past 12 months there have > been at least 3 mails to this list from people asking for help who had > not realised that they were offline. So from the "in the wild" > real-world results, we can conclude a) that it's not obvious to people, > and b) that they don't look down at the indicator. But what they are > doing is trying to click the "send/receive" button. > > So to me, it makes sense to try doing something different with this > button in offline mode. Some possibilities for discussion: > * good: if the button's tooltip changed in offline mode to say "You > cannot send and receive because you are currently offline", that might > help people somewhat. > * better: toggle this button to mean "work online". > * best: toggle this button to mean "work online and then send/receive". > If the button is clicked and Evo can't go online for some reason, give > the user a popup dialog notifying them of this. > > -- All the best, > Nick.
see my previous post, i am always online except to send when disconnected which I can click save draft. jay _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
