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

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 15:34, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't call $URLUSER and $URLHOST self-documenting.  ;-)  It sounds
kind of OK in English, but what about other languages?  Also I'd rather
just have something like %u and %h instead of an annoyingly long
variable name.

> > 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?

I think so.  However I still like the way without the entry better.  :-)

-- Ettore