Re: Feature request: Server connection status message

Hello Dillo maintainer people,

If I set out to write this patch, the first version will be painful. Do you want the change?  Do you want to hand-hold me through writing it?

Regards,
James. 

> On 9/03/2016, at 4:09 am, Alexander Voigt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi James,
> 
>> 'Transferring ...' is already covered in the top right corner, where
>> there is a number of kilobytes that goes grey when transferring
>> finishes.
> 
> ah, you are right, I was not aware of that.
> 
>> I wonder if the other things that you want could be retrofitted into
>> that box.  I wonder if the set should include:
>> - Parse  - parsing the URL and preparing to act on it
>> - DNS   - waiting for the DNS
>> - CONN  - waiting for a TCP connection to complete
>> - SEC  - waiting for a security handshake
> 
> Yes, that would be great!  It would make even more transparent what
> Dillo does in the background.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:53:49PM +1300, James C wrote:
>> Hello Alexander,
>> 
>> 'Transferring ...' is already covered in the top right corner, where
>> there is a number of kilobytes that goes grey when transferring
>> finishes.
>> 
>> I wonder if the other things that you want could be retrofitted into
>> that box.  I wonder if the set should include:
>> - Parse  - parsing the URL and preparing to act on it
>> - DNS   - waiting for the DNS
>> - CONN  - waiting for a TCP connection to complete
>> - SEC  - waiting for a security handshake
>> 
>> Regards,
>> James.
>> 
>>> On 08/03/2016, Alexander Voigt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Dear Dillo developers,
>>> 
>>> since the bug tracker is down, please let me propose a new feature
>>> over the mailing list.
>>> 
>>> From time to time I am in places with a very bad internet connection.
>>> when I surf with Dillo and click on a link it appears that nothing
>>> happens, except that the link color has changed.  Then I'm usually
>>> wondering what's going on now.  Did I really click the link?  Has the
>>> server has been found?  Is the server responding very slowly?  Does
>>> Dillo receive data from it?  Or is my connection dead?
>>> 
>>> To avoid this confusion, I'd like to propose a status message which is
>>> displayed in the status bar at the very bottom of the Dillo window.
>>> The message could say what is currently been done.  For example,
>>> Firefox says
>>> 
>>>   "Looking up www.example.de"
>>>   "Waiting for www.example.de"
>>>   "Transferring data from www.example.de"
>>> 
>>> Many thanks and best regards,
>>> Alex
>>> 
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