Bug 127005

Summary:	[usability] No error message when a feed fails downloading
Product:	[Applications] akregator	Reporter:	MM <radar>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ewoerner
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description MM 2006-05-09 10:34:04 UTC

Version:           1.2.2 (using KDE 3.5.2, Gentoo)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.14-gentoo-r5

I have many feeds failing to download. I can see the red X icon next to the feed, but I have no clue on what caused the feed to fail. Admittedly I'm out of luck, but I need to use something like wget or konqueror to see that one feed has disappeared (404), another has a syntax error within, and the third has a server problem, where the length of the file is transmitted erroneously, and even though the feed is complete, akregator rejects it as not fully downloaded...

I'd love to see an error message reporting these things, at least when I download those feeds manually (clicking on the toolbar button)...

Comment 1 Frank Osterfeld 2006-09-04 01:54:35 UTC

*** Bug 103222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 dcg 2006-12-17 19:32:57 UTC

akregator already shows an "x" icon when something fails (maybe not the best icon, but at least do it)

I think a good UI idea would be to print a "warning" when you select a "folder" that failed to get the feed: Ej: a red square on top of the (old) items: "Akregator wasn' able to update this feed because: ____"

Comment 3 Frank Osterfeld 2008-02-03 23:29:20 UTC

SVN commit 770532 by osterfeld:

show fetch state in the subscription list
Show explanation for fetching errors in tooltip
FEATURE:127005,150806 


 M  +12 -8     feed.cpp  
 M  +6 -2      feed.h  
 M  +12 -0     feedlist.cpp  
 M  +14 -0     feedlist.h  
 M  +69 -9     subscriptionlistmodel.cpp  
 M  +8 -1      subscriptionlistmodel.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=770532