Hi, thanks for your awakening answer. Your last sentence made me thought "they must be a status bar somewhere", so I looked into the "View" menu, found "View Status Bar" and found exactly what I was looking for.
Mmmh, I should have sleep longer this morning... Thanks, Charles On mer, 2006-08-30 at 15:54 +0530, Shreyas wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 08:15 +0200, Charles Bueche wrote: > > Hi, > > I miss a network traffic status display in the foot window. It shall > > display what happens in the background (syncing folderX, getting body of > > msgY, emptying trash, etc). > > Its not really evo's task to monitor the kind of network response it > is experiencing. This seems more like a system level network manager > task which tells apps that the network is slow and be careful about the > network operations you carry out. There is network manager support right > now which just tracks network outage and not network inertia. > > Although i assume it would be hard to determine which events need to > take place when the network is slow and which shouldn't. > > > Sometimes, evo appears to hang, but it is just doing some background > > network activity. Having a status display would help to understand what > > happens. The blinking network LED is not enough. > > Now, thats a bug a well known one at that too. The sync operation should > not block the ui, but we all know that it happens sometimes. The status > bar should be set when any network operation is happening, you see > nothing on the status bar? > > -- > Shreyas > -- Charles Bueche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sand, snow, wave, wind and net -surfer _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list