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On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 08:29 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: |
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> > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:57:57 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > For example, Network Manager uses D-Bus to tell programs when |
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> > your Internet connection is available and not, so your mail client goes |
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> > into offline mode rather than pointlessly trying to access your mailbox. |
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> > KDE4 uses it quite extensively, ust as KDE3 used DCOP. |
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> So that's why when I am downloading something it doesn't check my |
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> emails. I was always curious about that. |
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that shouldn't be the case - what email client are you using? Evolution |
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supports this (with the networkmanager USE flag*) but it goes offline |
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when all your interfaces are down, not just "in use" like heavy |
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downloading. |
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* actually the USE flag (networkmanager instead of dbus) and the |
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comments on it suggest that it talks directly to NetworkManager and not |
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via dbus, but I don't actually know. |
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$ equery u evolution |
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- + networkmanager : Allows Evolution to automagically toggle online/offline |
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mode by talking to net-misc/networkmanager and getting |
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the current network state |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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She always believed in the old adage -- leave them while you're looking good. |
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-- Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" |
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