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[Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Gwibber nicely try to detect whether the user is online/offline when
network manager (or equivalent) is in use. When it detects that the user
is offline, it disables not only automatic refresh, but also the text
area used to post notices.

The detection however seems to be a bit naive; as a user, I perceive
that it works as follows: an event "interface up" (resp. "interface
down") is used to switch gwibber to "online" (resp. "offline") mode.
Such a discipline breaks down when multiple interfaces can be brought up
and down independently, as it happens on a laptop which is using both
wired and wireless connections.

It routinely happen to me, when switching from wired to wireless of
viceversa, that gwibber assumes I'm offline while in fact I'm not. At
that point, the only solution is to quit and restart gwibber. Can
detection of online/offline status be improved?

As a nice addition, that would also enable working around similar
issues, it would be nice to expose to the user explicitly the online-
ness of gwibber and also to enable the user to affect it directly, for
cases where automatic detection breaks down.

Many thanks for Gwibber!
Cheers.

** Affects: gwibber
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: gwibber (Debian)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: gwibber (Debian)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Summary changed:

- online/offline detection get fooled by multiple connections
+ online/offline detection gets fooled by multiple connections

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Title:
  online/offline detection gets fooled by multiple connections