KDE network and dialog issues

[Orville Bennett]

On Mar 22, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:

> http://kde.aliax.net/kde_issues/network

"And why doesn’t appear KWalletManager asking me to introduce the  
password???"
It does. On the correct desktop. If it appeared on all desktops then  
you'd get all the people going up in arms about "confusing dialogs"  
which appear out of nowhere, certainly leading to "another big  
usability issue".

"KDE should be improved in making easier the dynamic network  
connections and the communication between applications (Kmail  
shouldn’t try to download mail if there is not network active). Maybe  
Solid could help here."
Excerpted from solid.kde.org (you know, the site you linked):
"We're now facing the wireless revolution...Computing lost its last  
limitation to a fully dynamic environment, and users must be able to  
make use of it.
So, we created the Solid API in order to allow KDE applications to  
reach this new dynamic environment...Solid will be tested again and  
again, to ensure the most bug safe behavior, because network and  
portable devices are things the user specially wants to just work."

"The warning dialogs should be improved too (Kmail shouldn’t show 6  
warning dialogs, one for each account, if there is not network)."
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103927

Conclusion:
You've failed to do even a basic investigation of the issues at hand.  
Congratulations. You have however brought to light at least one bug  
which exists here, and that is the apparent inability of  
kwalletmanager to prioritize which apps get access first or maybe  
this would simply be fixed with asynchronous access, which, i  
believe, is actually already being worked on. I didn't check bko to  
see if a bug of this manner were already present however.

P.S. Please do a little more research before launching a blog spam  
bitchathon. Nice website by the way.

--

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because us fools are so  
ingenious.



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