On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 15:36 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 03:27:07 PM Marc Deslauriers wrote: > > Solving it for a good proportion of cases is better than not solving it > > at all. > > > > It drives me nuts that Evolution and gnome-xchat spew error messages > > before I log into a portal, when this problem is already solved on other > > operating systems by using essentially the same technique. > > I've got absolutely no objection to this if it's defaulted off for people > like > you that want it.
This is useful for non-power users. Power users already know how to turn the appropriate knobs to turn unwanted features off. > > My MUA and IRC client of choice just let me know they can't connect. There's > no spew of error messages. If the problem is spew of error message when > connectivity is lacking (which can happen for lots of reasons), I think this > is the wrong way to solve it. I disagree. Marc. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
