Review Request 130051: Allow the user to silence some sync warnings

[Martin Koller]

On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 00:05:54 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> 
> > On March 27, 2017, 7:21 a.m., Martin Koller wrote:
> > > Personally this at least solves my issue. Thanks for this.
> > > Still I wonder why this is only done in the POP resource and not (or different) in others.
> > > This is inconsistent.
> > > 
> > > Also I think it should not be up to the resource to decide HOW an error or warning is displayed.
> > > AFAIK therefore the Akonadi::AgentBase signals like 
> > > void 	warning (const QString &message)
> > > void 	error (const QString &message)
> > > are available.
> > 
> > Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >     Those messages end up in some log that noone will see.
> >     
> >     As i already said, if yahoo fails to log me in with an error that says "You need to log in the webpage first because we don't like you" (google gives similar errors) we need to show them to the user.
> > 
> > Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >     s/Those messages/Those methods
> > 
> > Laurent Montel wrote:
> >     How we can reactivate after that theses messagebox ?
> >     Albert is right it's important to see theses warning/error otherwise we don't know why there is a problem and it's difficult to debug it.
> 
> > How we can reactivate after that theses messagebox ?
> 
> You have to edit the config file like in all "Don't show me again".
> 
> Note the "Don't show me again" is per error type and server, so if you press "Don't show me again" in a "Could not connect to host" error, it will still show an error in a "failed login because the server is weird" case, so i think it's ok.
> 
> Eventually it would be nice to have a generic solution to be able to reenable the "Don't show me again" messages, but i think it's out of scope for this.

What is the argument against a passive KNotification, not needing the "don't show again" checkbox ?

-- 
Best regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin
A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q: Why is top posting bad?

()  ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail 
/\                        - against proprietary attachments

Geschenkideen, Accessoires, Seifen, Kulinarisches: www.lillehus.at