On 5/19/05, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 16:18 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > For dial-up users the obvious thing to do is ask them to connect to the > > Internet. They should probably only be automatically asked once per > > session and be expecated to manually request a connection otherwise. > > There are also cases where failing (more or less) silently is preferable > too, of course... I'm sure we've all been annoyed by mail programs that > pop up alerts during their periodic background checks to tell us that > they can't connect to the mail server, when we really couldn't care > less.
Absolutely. I'd /hope/ that the dialog I proposed elsewhere in the thread would only be deployed in response to user-initiated actions- having evo remind me over and over again that my network is down is of course a bug, no matter how nice/informative the dialog is. Luis _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
