Bug 164716

Summary: one online/offline button for all kontact applications
Product: [Applications] kontact Reporter: Arnout Boelens <a.m.p.boelens>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: xoen
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Arnout Boelens 2008-06-23 03:42:53 UTC 
Version:           unknown (using 4.00.82 (KDE 4.0.82 >= 20080610), Debian packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.25-2-686

Right now only kmail has the option choose whether to work offline or online. However, I noticed that when kmail is set to work offline akregator still tries to connect to the internet. Therefore I would like to suggest on global online/offline button to which all applications in kontact listen.
Comment 1 Gerhard Riener 2008-08-14 08:51:47 UTC 
there was a similar discussion for kontact in kde3 over that (bug 69281), The consensus is that it is a bad idea, and that each program should handle it seperately.
However, it would be nice if kontact could check the network status regularly and if there is no network connection, just suspends all networkjobs of all its parts globally, so there are no annoying searching bars and warnings that they can not connect to the network from each application, but just 1 warnining that one is disconnected from the net. Including a global manual switch would also be nice, to make it quicker to suspend all jobs and does not need to go to each seperate application.