[Kde-pim] Usability - adding SMTP & Co.

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Thursday 25 March 2010 21:23:06 Frank Thieme wrote:
> I had to add some SMTP accounts lately and stumpled upon an usability
> problem. If you add an outgoing service you click on add and get a menu
> where you can select SMTP, sendmail, ...
> 
> When you doubleclick SMTP you can configure all the settings and end with
> an unnamed SMTP service. It took me a while to see the name field below
> the list of services. I think this is just the wrong position.
> 
> When adding incoming services, you just get the list of available services
> and set the name with all the other options in the dialog that opens. It
> should be that way with outgoing services, too...
> 
> I don't know whether there already exists a bug/wish for this or wether
> this is intentional...

Yep, this can be improved to be much more consistent and usable. I think the 
POP and IMAP settings dialog do it right. Also, the sending tab and the 
receiving tab have different buttons in them, which is a bit inconsistent.
The Akonadi port currently made the situation a bit worse, there is still a 
lot of room for improvement.
See also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223483. Help would be very 
welcome. FYI, KMail 1 is frozen except for urgent bugfixes, so this work 
should go to trunk/KMail 2.

Regards,
Thomas
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