On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 13:55 -0800, [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 07:11:24PM +0000, John Rice wrote: > > Hi - following webrev replaces some of the error dialogs we posted > > when we got Transport and Catalog Refresh errors by a call to just > > log the error and display the notification icon in the status bar. > > > > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jmr/pm_13975_transport_errs_20Jan_7pm > > 13975 Transport errors should be logged rather than displayed in a dialog > > Is this really the desired behavior for a GUI? If the user requested > an operation, but you're unable to perform it because of transport > errors, don't you want to notify the user that the operation failed?
Did you see John's comment #2 on the bug? > [...] > We do want to see transport errors during an install or when we are trying to > enable/ disable a publisher, so I've left those as is. > > We now log transport errors for update_descriptions, getting pkg info, getting > info for search results, doing a refresh and showing license info. Plus the user is notified by the 'warning' icon in the status bar. Personally, I like what John's done here. --joanie _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
