[Bug 250554] New: Akonadi error messages when no network connection

[jamese]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250554

           Summary: Akonadi error messages when no network connection
           Product: Akonadi
           Version: 4.5
          Platform: Ubuntu Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Google Resource
        AssignedTo: savagobr at yahoo.com
        ReportedBy: james.ellis at gmail.com
                CC: vkrause at kde.org, kdepim-bugs at kde.org


Created an attachment (id=51421)
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example dialogue box error message

Version:           4.5 (using KDE 4.5.0) 
OS:                Linux

When there is no network connection, Akonadi tries to contact the configured
calendar & contacts resource and errors out in the process. This results in
dialogue boxes appearing on the screen

e.g "akonadi_googledata_resource_3 - Invalid password or network proxy."

When the network is reconnected, the dialogues no longer appear.

If you suspend a laptop, the dialogue box appears just prior to suspend.
Resuming from suspend and there are usually about 8 dialogues in the task bar
all containing the same information.

Can the Akonadi error messages be supressed, or be transferred to the system
tray notification system? Alternatively, Akonadi should just detect that there
is no network connection and not bother trying to connect to the remote
resources in the first place.

Note that I use the Gnome network manager applet (nm-applet) to manage the
network as the KDE network manager doesn't work with my Mobile Broadband
account.


Thanks!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Can be reproduced by
1. Start computer
2. Akonadi will ask for a wallet password & nm-applet will ask for a keyring
password (if you are using it)
3. Multiple dialogues boxes will appear during this time, even when typing in
the passwords or waiting for network to configure.

Also
1. Suspend the computer
2. A dialogue will appear before going to suspend state
3. Resume from suspend
4. Generally about 6 dialogues containing the "Invalid password or network
proxy." will then be in the task bar.


Actual Results:  
Akonadi shouldn't try to contact a remote resource when there is no network
configured. If it does, then it shouldn't be so noisy about failures and one
error message in the system tray notification area will suffice.

Expected Results:  
Wait until the network is configured, then try to connect, then if the
connection fails push a message to the system tray notification handler, rather
than bombarding the desktop with multiple dialogues containing the same
information that the user has to close.

The dialogue boxes just contribute to noise that gets in the way of using KDE
software.

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