[Kde-pim] KMails Account Wizard

[Manfred Mislik]

As I'm working through the new Getting Started section I found that the 
Account Wizard probably needs an overhaul.

Why? Because I started to think about the type of user that actually _needs_ 
this type of setup help. I came to the conclusion that its main audience will 
be the inexperienced type of user that does want to get his email account 
working with the setup data that he got from his provider, but does not care 
about too much detail.

Such a user is going to be confused by the wizard dialog that not offers her to 
set up an email account but offers the choice between weird stuff like "Local 
mailbox", "POP3", "IMAP", "Disconnected IMAP" and "Maildir mailbox". What the 
heck is that about? I want email!

Because of that I think there should only be the choice between "POP3" and 
"IMAP" with a short explanation underneath depending on which of the two is 
being selected at the moment. An additional checkbox could offer "Advanced 
Settings" that the experienced user is going to skip anyway because he most 
likely hits <ESC> and goes straight to the configuration dialog to set up his 
identities and accounts.

Hm, in this case I'd say the "Advanced Settings" checkbox should actually be a 
"Advanced Settings" button that just opens the configuration dialog and be done 
with it.

Manfred
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