Using jun21 m17 commercial build When offline, 4.x used to display a status bar text message "You are offline. Choose 'Go Online' to connect". This was in addition to the tooltip when mousing over the offline icon, and in addition to the message which would display in the message pane when trying to display a message which had not been previously downloaded. This status bar message appeared when switching to the offline state via menu or icon and was present if starting in offline state. It would display any time you selected another message after any other loading status was finished. This same status bar message transferred through to other dialogs/windows such as the subscribe dialog, search messages,etc. It was an easy way to remind the user in a textual way in any situation that they were offline. Logging this as a tracking bug -- are we going to do this for 6.0? I think we should.

I'll work on getting some of this implemented.

this should actually happen everywhere, not just in mailnews. I'm not sure who handles offline. I'll start with Networking.

reassigning to owner of selected component.

reassigning to just gagan per dawn's request (two owners doesn't work)

->law

->law really!

added RFE to summary.

Open Networking bugs, qa=tever -> qa to me.

since bill's on sabbatical, should this go over to the offline folx?

->dianesun?

Please don't do this. I spend most of my time offline, and I don't want `You are offline. Choose "Work Online" to connect.' staring me in the face all the time. 4.x's offline icon wasn't noticably different from its online icon -- it wasn't different in color, and was pretty similar in shape. A more noticable offline icon (e.g. one with a small red cross through it) would make it much more noticable when you were offline, without being annoying (see also bug 60147 and bug 88569). Why not fix the icon instead? (And of course fix bugs like bug 90489.)

Question, did some one land this change? I noticed with today's trunk builds 2001-08-06-09-trunk for windows and 2001-08-06-08-trunk for linux/mac that there is text to the right of the online/offline icon. See attachment.

found someone already filed a bug about it, bug 93936. But not where it 'came from'.

The text should not be there. Only on hover should the text appear in a tooltip.

I saw it on Asa's build. It is definitely text by the button, not just a tool tip. It also appears in browser.

reassign to blake who is working on bug 93936

I agree with Matthew that this would be annoying. And Jennifer seemed to suggest that we shouldn't do this, except in a tooltip. IE doesn't do this. Marking wontfix unless someone has strong feelings...

This problem might be solvable via better support for a "network profile" (bug 88218).

If one is offline and composes a mail message, the only way of going online so as to send the message seems to be to go to the main mail or the Navigator window, click the on-/offline icon or choose 'online' in the File menu, go back to the 'Compose' window and send. Very clumsy. It should be possible to click the on-/offline icon or choose 'online' directly from the 'Compose' window. I am using Mozilla 1.1 on a Mac G3 (old beige type) with OS 9.2.2 and Classic theme.

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement. They have the same meaning.

we have autodetect of offline status now, which should ameliorate this issue. However, the compose window still doesn't have an offline indicator/toggle on it. Assigning to nobody...