Comment 5 for bug 362561

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 21:40 +0000, Elliot Murphy wrote:
> On 04/16/2009 05:25 PM, Ted Gould wrote:
> >> 2. Connect / Disconnect
> >
> > Isn't this what the network manager icon is for? Why would I want to
> > turn off Ubuntu One independent of my network settings?
>
> This is the only one I think we have a strong defense for - when I pop
> open my netbook on a tiny little mobile phone tethered internet
> connection to send an important email, I don't really want Ubuntu One
> using all the bandwidth to sync down the 20 new screenshots that my
> colleague has dropped into our shared folder.
>
> I wonder how/where to easily let people enable/disable U1 syncing (which
> is really a simplified case of people needing to choose between
> different syncing policies depending on where they are connected from).

I guess this depends on two things. One, how important the data is, and
two the speed of the connection. If you checked your e-mail quickly and
it turns out your colleague made some last minute updates to the
presentation you're about to give, you'd pretty excited to know you
caught those. It seems like you should, in any case get a notification
of "There are 23 updates available, blocking download because you're on
3G" and provide a way to check for, and download individual files.

I don't think even in the low bandwidth quick check e-mail case you want
U1 off, you just want it not to auto-download files. Right?