nice, however, i fear, this wording is already too long 
(when shown in place of âDelta Chatâ what the current approach is like)
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BTW some screenshots
Some cleaning up to be done.
The HTML (in my screenshots, all black-on-white text) is not translated because I assume that people who are interested in tech enough to read through this usually speak English. And we plan to further improve the HTML, anyway, so even if we do want to translate it, probably not yet. (fwiw they would be 7 strings to translate). What do you think?
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Right, I should have read all posts in the thread! 
I would localize all strings, because I know any unlocalized string would âturn offâ people who are no techies, and I believe Delta Chat is meant to be for people of every kind.
sure, once that is done, things will be localized, where possible and reasonable (for error messages, this is often not doable as they come eg. from the server â and, also, it is not that wise to translate them as you cannot search them in some search engine) (or you will miss the one information that would have helped you).
however, up to then, it is reasonable to stay in english, as things will probably shifted around and reworded massively 
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I would like very much, to know when there is a problem, but having a text other than DeltaChat in the title for a long time does not please me very much, I suggest only two states, âNot Connectedâ for when there is an error and âDeltaChatâ for all other cases.
Thatâs almost the plan, just that there is a third state âConnectingâŚâ for the short timespan inbetween
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As feed-forward might be from interests for he good masters: âBigâ the use of space. Small sign might be enough and maybe better to use the header as orientation, giving info of account in use and kind of list/page one currently is, since both always hard to figure out.
Inspiration: left a changing sign, spinning wheel, one-way, green circle and next âAccount Nameâ| Chatlist (ContactlistâŚ) of with could be also made as sign.
People at large donât like reading and lot of maintaining work is saved if using signs of meaning.
Sadhu for providing state info, so that one might not feel lost in uninformed.
Just a quick plump visualication:
Or using own logo in variants for connected, search, offâŚ
By yping logo, one gets more info.
Arrows next account, maybe just one, to switch quick. If another account has new messeges, arrow gets colored and menu list of accounts would show colored circle if new messeges, maybe he green ith numbers of messages. But just naive ideas witg sure lot of work behind.
Yes, well, as I understand it, the intention is to put âNot connectedâ even when the mobile is in airplane mode, I donât think this is an error, it is simply that there is no network. I think they should put âNot connectedâ only when, having a network, delta cannot connect.
âNot connectedâ is a status, not necessary an error.
In airplane mode âNot connectedâ IMHO should be shown. Because it is the correct state in that situation. Itâs not an error.
Some thoughts:
match âreason for not connectedâ{
- âDevice signals onlineâ and âfirst error in connection to mail serverâ => âConnection errorâ
- âDevice signals onlineâ and âerror situation beforeâ => âNot connectedâ (assumption, wrong device info)
- âDevice signals OFFLINEâ => âNot connectedâ
}
This is a little more than simply showing an error text but maybe useful?
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To begin with, it would be enough to make the color of the icon in the status bar green if everything is normal and, for example, gray if something went wrong.
Not everyone uses the reliable background connection which, indeed, seems to me to be disabled by default and I think many of those who enable it then disable the display of the permanent notification (at least I do), so I think itâs not really a solution to the problem.