[bt-devel] Network warning functionality

[David (Mailing List Addy)]

On Sunday 01 November 2009 11:07:31 am Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> > Is there not something already in QT for this sort of thing? 
Perhaps
> > even something like a passive popup like KDE used to have, or 
some
> > other sort of notification?
> 
> I'm not sure where you're pointing at. AFAIK there's no standard 
dialog
> in Qt which has "Don't show this message again" option. KDE may 
have but
> we don't use KDE, so we have to implement our own (which is not 
a big
> deal).

The windows equivalent of a "passive popup" from KDE3 (now things 
in the notification applet in KDE4) would be the little bubble thing 
that pops up sometimes, basically I'm going with something that is 
not a dialog that lets the user know the issue.

> > And thinking further, we could extend it to
> > be
> > like browsers or email, and implement a work offline if the 
network is
> > not connected maybe. But I'd have no clue how to implement 
that.
> 
> There's no use for offline mode, because if something has been
> downloaded, it's already used "offline", like source module lists or
> modules themselves. We don't do any online "browsing" or module 
reading.

A traditional offline mode, no. But we could ask the user if they want 
the program to wait until network connectivity comes back to 
download.