[Bug 115962] Kmail riddled with modal dialog boxes

[Alain Knaff]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115962





--- Comment #5 from Alain Knaff <kde kde lka org lu>  2009-09-12 15:45:06 ---
You are right that this example is less bad than the initial one, as it doesn't
contain ask for any input, and thus can be dismissed right away without the
user needing to look information elsewhere in the application in order to fill
it in.

However, a similar modal box pops up when connection to the server fails for
whatever reason (network disconnected, firewall rules, ...). In that case too,
the box takes no input. But the user might want to keep it around in order to
have the error message under his eyes when reviewing the config of the
connection. Which he can't do, because the box is modal.

And in the connection case, there is no second main window which he can use to
access the config!

Yes, the user could copy-paste the error text elsewhere, but why impose such
hassle? And yes, in the case I tested (firewall rule), the error message was
meaningless anyways ("Unknown error", instead of "Connection timed out" or
somesuch), but that makes it 1+1=2 bugs, not 1-1=0 bugs that cancel out :-).
Btw, the system error is accessible to the application even if non-blocking
connect() system call is used, via the getsockopt(Sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR,
 &error, &len) call.

No, I can't reproduce the initial bug _exactly_ as reported, as the relevant
certificates have expired since then, and I would get different errors. But the
same _category_ of issue still exists, and that is what I was trying to point
out.

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