[Kde-pim] Removing 'default' from the combobox for identities & transports

[Tom Albers]

Op zo 8 jul 2007 17:30 schreef u:
> On Sunday 08 July 2007 12:06, Tom Albers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently the identity and transport combobox have a '(Default)' text
> > behind the default transport/identity. I can understand that is
> > needed for the config - and i dont want to change that.
> >
> > But presenting it to the user in the composer is silly imho. The
> > default identity is selected by default, stating that explicitly is
> > weird.
> >
> > I will delete that suffix next wednesday unless someone has an
> > argument to keep it in there.
> 
> I agree that appending "(Default)" is somewhat silly. What I actually 
> want to have in a few places is an additional "Default (foo)" entry 
> where "foo" obiously would be the name of the _current_ default. The 
> keyword here is _current_. It is often desirable to be able to set the 
> default identity/transport as identity/transport and not a specific 
> identity/transport so that one does not have to change the 
> identity/transport in hundreds of places just because the default 
> identity/transport has changed.
> 
> For example the default value for the identity used for folders in KMail 
> should be "Default" so that in case the user makes another identity the 
> default identity not some outdated identity is associated with all his 
> folders.
> 
> Another example is the transport used in the composer. I mostly want it 
> to be set to "Default" so that automatically the current default 
> transport is used for sending the message. Obviously, this is only 
> important for queued messages.
> 
> So, in short:
> - I agree to removing the "(Default)" appendix.
> - I want the comboboxes to optionally have "Default (foo)" as first 
> entry.

Thanks for the reply. The second wish is easy to implement, but i would call it simply "Default", or "Default (currently: foo)" to make it more clear. I will add it to the libs as soon as someone starts to work on that for KMail.

Toma
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