Re: [Evolution-hackers] [Fwd: Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] IMAP preauth and subcommand connection.]

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

> > This would work well with what I proposed above; we could advertise the
> > "%h" and "%u" with a little blurb in the "advanced" dialog.
> 
> True -- but don't we have context-specific help already? And a suitable
> default _using_ them will make it obvious too.

It's nicer if the information is obvious from the dialog without having
to use the "Help" button though.

> In the case where the connection type is set to something other than
> 'Custom command', we can either grey out or completely remove the text
> entry box for the actual command -- and when we first enable 'Custom
> command' the text entry box for it comes back, with the sane default
> which makes the $URLHOST and $URLUSER stuff obvious.

If we go this way we should be hiding the entry completely, because you
don't want the default page to be clobbered with details 99% of the
users do not care about.

-- Ettore