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

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > Anyway, I failed to properly stress an important question in my previous
> > post:
> > 
> >   Did the UI team decide about bug #243241 yet?
> 
> Yeah. I have spoken to Anna regarding this issue and she says its best
> to disable the "Send" button when no account is configured. So the user
> is only able to *save* a message into the drafts folder so that he can
> send it later.
> 
> A patch for this would follow soon.

Thanks partha.

Honestly, I don't agree with the UI team here. IMHO disabling the Send
button will be pretty confusing to the user. I still think falling back
to the default account would be a sane way and least confusing to the
user. Whatever, I do respect Annas decision. :)

(On a related note: You just used words that clearly express a related
issue to the users. Save vs. Draft. The Composer offers *both*, File /
Save and File / Save Draft. I have come across users, who actually meant
to save a Draft, but used the misleading Save (with accelerator, btw).
The latter is pretty much pointless for most users. And I'm afraid, most
of 'em will use Save, rather than Draft. :/ )


Anyway, my question actually aimed at the original bug #243241, rather
than the patch.

Do we really want to not show disabled accounts in the Composer? What
about the concerns mentioned in bugzilla about disabling POP3 accounts
(for retrieval only) but still enable the user to *send* mails without
forcing him to fetch mails?

As this bug still is open and the UI team did not comment in any way,
committing this patch or any other will implement a UI behavior that was
not decided upon.

I'm still kind of waiting for the UI team to comment on the bug. Can
someone please poke Anna for me? My UI team summoning skills seem to be
a little bit weak these days... ;)

...guenther


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