Re: Notebook friendliness

Jason Townsend <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.fire.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Oct 13, 2003, at 11:54 PM, John Arnold wrote:
> I use Fire on my iBook all the time. Sleeping/waking, changing 
> networks, gaining/losing internet connectivity really brings out what 
> you don't like in a lot of apps. Here is what I would like to see in 
> Fire:
>
> - option to disable popup errors about services not connecting. It can 
> keep trying, but it shouldn't bug me when I'm off the net. It is 
> slightly entertaining to see many many error dialogs covering each 
> other and making a really dark shadow, but it's not that much fun.

This is much better in the current development version of Fire. We 
suppress the duplicate dialogs, and only show one dialog at a time. If 
there are multiple alerts queued, you just get the next one when you 
dismiss the previous one. Also, the alerts do not block the rest of the 
app like they do in 0.32.x versions.

> - command to "connect to 'auto-connect' accounts." Currently you can 
> do "connect to all accounts" which is not what I want to do most of 
> the time. I only have this problem because I turn auto-reconnect off, 
> which is because of the first problem above!

Good suggestion! Would you mind putting that in our feature request 
list?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=33772&atid=409173

> - screen space is limited on my iBook. Tabbed conversation windows (as 
> an option) a la Gaim would be the bee's knees. The cat's pajamas. 
> Manna from heaven.

Frequently requested and we are looking into this.

> Well, those are the itches I need scratched =) if I have some time I 
> can probably go do the first 2 on my own, but may as well throw them 
> out there if anyone wants to pick them up.

If you do end up adding any features to Fire, please send them in using 
the patch tracker. Also, check out the fire-development list if you are 
interested in contributing.

http://fire.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml#dev-submissions

-Jason



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