Annoying Popups in konqueror with Office File Preview enabled

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sun Nov 10 18:23:56 GMT 2002


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On Sunday 10 November 2002 18:37, Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> No, I stick to my proposal: notification about a failure in a
> background process should be unintrusive, if it's not fatal for the
> application itself. Kmail should e.g. just display a warning sign
> next to the account-folder, and maybe display a balloon with a
> description ("kmail was unable to download new mail for this account
> from the server, please check you network connection") if the mouse
> hovers over it.

Apart from the fact that there is no account folder for POP accounts ;-) 
I agree that the failure warnings could be made less intrusive. Maybe a 
warning icon could be added to the status bar which when clicked (or on 
mouse-over) would show the error message.

Regards,
Ingo

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