Re: [evolution-patches] (mail) displaying only those account which are enabled in "From" field of composer window

[Parthasarathi Susarla <sparthasarathi novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:42 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > The attached patch displays only those accounts that are enabled in the
> > "From" header of the composer window. 
> 
> Yeehaw! :-)
> 
> Did you just say you finally fixed this long outstanding UI issue?
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243241

The patch fixes a couple of related issues. But i think they are more or
less covered in the discussion of of #243241
> 
> No activity on this bug for months. Is there actually a decision made by
> the UI team?
> 
I sent this patch deliberately to e-p so that some of us (the UI guys
included) can test and it and see how it feels. That is good enough
feed-back to the UI team. 

<snip>

> Possible options:
> 
> * If the user has *no* account enabled, he probably should not even be
>   able to compose a new message.

This is a bad idea, since the users would be more that confused. A
probable solution would be to actually disable the "Send" button when no
accounts are enabled.

> * Alternatively, use the default account in From and do send the mail
>   using that account. (I'd prefer this, I think...)
None of the accounts are enabled, so there is no default account in the
>From too. Re-stating your point you made on the bugzilla, if the default
account is an IMAP account with the "Sent Items" as a server folder,
then this behavior would defeat the whole purpose of the patch. 

> I really don't think it is a good idea to have mails stuck in the
> Outbox. It's way too late for the user to realize he screwed up his
> settings at this point. He maybe won't even notice at all for a long
> time.
> 
Agreed. I shall send a re-worked patch which would have the "Send"
button in the composer window disabled. 


Thanks and Cheers,
partha