<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Francesco Nwokeka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:francesco.nwokeka@gmail.com">francesco.nwokeka@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Saturday 02 April 2011 21:01:09 Rohan Garg wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
> This is in continuation to bug <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269911" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269911</a><br>
><br>
> We were discussing this issue on irc, and i currently have a patch that<br>
> reconnects the account when the details are changed, but we reached a<br>
> deadlock on whether or not the account should connect automatically when<br>
> it's added by the KCM module.<br>
><br>
> According to Martin Klapetek, when a user finishes adding his/her account,<br>
> they do not realize that they have been automatically connected and thus<br>
> they stay connected without their knowledge.Whereas me and David Edmundson<br>
> think that this should be the default behavior since a user is sent back to<br>
> the KCM after adding a account, where their current status is shown and<br>
> it's only natural that the account to connect to the service as soon as<br>
> one is done adding it.<br>
><br>
> We would like to hear everyone's views on this before changing this<br>
> behavior.<br>
</div></div>I too share Martin's idea. It should be the user to decide weather or not to connect with the<br>
recently added account.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Could you expand on why anyone would add an account but not want to use it straight away?</div><div><br></div><div>As for the argument "they might stay connected without their knowledge", this isn't any different from when they close the contact list. I think we're hoping long term to get the presence applet into the default plasma setup, that should help things.</div>
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