[Psi-Devel] failing to reconnect on un-suspend (windows)

[Maciek Niedzielski]

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 16:16:58 -0500, "Hal Rottenberg" <hal at halr9000.com>
wrote:
> Ahh ok, yes, that was the cause.  I'm really wondering why this is
> broken down so far though.  Seems the three various auto-connect
> options could be replaced with one "Reconnect automatically" option.

These options are different, IMHO.
While I have auto-reconnect enabled, I disabled auto-connect on startup,
because sometimes I want to start Psi just to check something in history,
without becoming available.
Auto-connect after sleep could be unified with one of previous options, but
not in the same way for all users. I use hibernation shutdown, so I want
Psi to behave same way after startup and wakeup. Other people use sleep
only temporarily (to move laptop from one room to another, etc) - sleep is
more like temporarily lost connection for them.


> Somewhat related, I just thought of another way to simplify the UI in
> a way [1].  I know it is a non-trivial suggestion but here goes:
> 
> - Create a set of global/parent settings that apply to all accounts.
> - Individual accounts would take the default if not defined
> - If a setting is defined, it overrides the parent setting.

Yes, this is a nice idea, but I cannot imagine a nice GUI for it: how to
show that value is inherited? How to switch back to global value?
It would probably be easier to allow editing multiple accounts in the same
time (like you can view and change properties of multiple files, etc)

-- 
Maciek