Annoying Popups in konqueror with Office File Preview enabled

[Marc Mutz]

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.

Full ACK.

> 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.

Well, just putting it in the status bar would suffice IMO. Your proposal 
fails for POP accounts (which all deliver into "Local Folders" by 
default).

Marc

-- 
'When you see the ping of death, duck and cover.'
                        -- Bruce Schneier, Crypto-Gram Oct 2002
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