2014/1/16 Albert Cervera i Areny <[email protected]>

> I only understand this is useful if stopping of the server could not
> be planned hours or days in advance. I think the point is to try to
> avoid users from loosing their work due to a need for shutting down
> the server. So, you announce all of those that are working right now
> that they have 5 minutes to save their work before the server is
> restarted.
>
> In this case e-mail does not solve the issue, but the popup does not
> ensure everyone will save their changes because they may have left the
> client opened for a few minutes. Maybe educating the user not to close
> the application if they receive a network error or simply improving
> the network error message would do the job in this case.
>
> Currently the message is:
>
> Network Error!
> (111, 'Connection refused')
>
> The description is very ugly, not very helpful, and we show the error
> number and "Connection refused" message. We could improve it by
> telling the user something like:
>
> "There's been a network error trying to contact the Tryton Server.
> Please, contact the system administrator to solve the issue and do not
> close the application in order to avoid losing changes."
>
> +1, this message is much more descriptive to the end user.

Regards

Sebastián Marró
Thymbra

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