Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

[Dale]

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

I use Seamonkey 2 right now.  You may be able to tell that by that pesky 
line at the top.  It appears Seamonkey has a roach or two rambling 
around in there.  Anyway, maybe it is just that the download is making 
it slow enough that it just cancels the request when it is busy.  I 
dunno.  I have noticed tho that I don't get emails for a while when I am 
downloading something large but if I hit the 'get messages' button, then 
I get a lot of messages that appear to be time stamped from a good while 
ago.

Maybe this is just a coincidence or something.

Dale

:-)  :-)