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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 15:15, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> It's nicer if the information is obvious from the dialog without having
> to use the "Help" button though.

True -- if they have to look at the help text we're already doing
something wrong. That's why I put in a default command which uses both
$URLUSER and $URLHOST, rather than leaving it blank by default and
forcing the user to enter _something_. It's self-documenting like that.

> > 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.

OK, that we can do fairly easily, can't we?

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