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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 08 July 2007 18:07, Tom Albers wrote:
> 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.

[snipped examples why this is useful]

> > 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.

I still prefer "Default (foo)". Just "Default" would make me always want 
to check what the default is and then additional "currently: " is IMO 
superfluous.

Regards,
Ingo
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