88194 - UI for autoswitch to on-/offline mode

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Backend, enhancement)

Description

[Simon Huerlimann]

i'm using an dialup connection to the internet :-( to save money, i often switch
between online/offline. since i activated auto-fetching in mail, i'm getting
"connection failed" messages every ten minutes. i would like this dialog to ask
me wheter i want to switch to offline. i think such a button should be in all
the "connection failed" and related messages.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

xpapps since this is a GUI request

Comment 2

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->offline; not sure if that's the correct component, but punt as needed.

Comment 3

[David :Bienvenu]

reassign and cc offline UI people.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing UI design owner

Comment 5

[benc]

Might be a good tie into an RFE I just filed: bug 82188.

Comment 6

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Cool idea.

This is one of the very rare cases when an error or note alert should have
dismissing buttons in it besides `OK'. (Bug 41720 2001-02-20 is another
example.) As such, it's probably going to show up yet another API bug in
nsIPrompt, but never mind.

It's quite possible for the user to click `OK', then go to the `File' menu and
choose `Work Offline'; but they might not realize that they can do this. You
could give them instructions in the alert on how to do it, but that would be
even more cluttersome than just providing a button to do the dang thing in the
alert itself.

+----------------------------------------------------+
|::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
+----------------------------------------------------+
|  _   Mozilla could not check for new messages on   |
| (X)  pophost.foo.bar, because there was no         |
|      response from the server.                     |
|                                                    |
|      Check that your Internet connection is        |
|      working, or contact your service provider.    |
|                                                    |
|                        ( Work Offline ) ((  OK  )) |
+----------------------------------------------------+
(No, I'm not happy with that last sentence.)

Ben, what's the correct bug number for the RFE you filed? (It's not 82188.)

Comment 7

[Simon Huerlimann]

the correct bug is bug 88218

Comment 8

[benc]

yeah. I meant that :)

Comment 9

[Diane Sun]

reassign to mohanb

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ssu.

Comment 11

[José Jeria]

Isnt this a dupe of bug 76111?

Comment 12

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Simon -- can you verify that you are still seeing the original behaviour, i.e.
connection failed messages when you are disconnected.

I am not seeing this:
ISDN dialup
Win2K
Mozilla 1.6b

José -- to me it is a dup, so this could be the bug that monitors the UI for
this feature.

Comment 13

[David :Bienvenu]

we now detect online state using the OS (on windows and linux, iirc), which ameliorates this issue.