477641 - Lack of network causes useless popup box.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123440

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Gerry Lawrence]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.19 (20081209)

Start thunderbird before your network manager has managed to get the connection on line ;  thunderbird punishes the user with a useless ("OK") popup dialog box.  

 There's no need for this.  You can show the status in a number of ways.  At any rate there should be a way to turn this annoying behavior off for users like me with a low tolerance threshold for this sort of thing.    Thanks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Turn off the network.
2. Start thunderbird, see the dialog box.
3. Get annoyed at useless dialog box.
4. File a bug or dupe this one.
Actual Results:  
popup box.  Again and again, every time you try to start without a network.


Expected Results:  
Nicer cleaner interface.   Maybe a status icon, or some other way to show the state of things.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Thunderbird can check on every platform except Linux the connection status and switches to offline mode but there is no right way on linux to do this.