[Kde-pim] IMAP/Pop3 Config UIs

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 28 March 2010, Frank Thieme wrote:
> On Sunday 28 March 2010 20:07:36 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > Okay. Thunderbird 2 definitely did not. I don't believe that any
> > user is going to understand what STARTTLS is supposed to be. The
> > 1&1 Hilfe- Center mentions STARTTLS on 3 pages, but there are 8
> > pages talking about SSL/TLS. In particular, the page explaining in
> > detail how to setup your email client
> > (http://hilfe-center.1und1.de/hosting/email/9.html) doesn't
> > mention STARTTLS at all. I don't think that it was a very smart
> > move by the Thunderbird developers to confront the user with
> > settings which differ significantly from the settings in TB 2.
> > 
> > Unless there are really compelling reasons for doing so we
> > shouldn't follow TB's example.
> 
> I think this won't be seen by the normal user, that just has one
> email account, as the account wizard hides that. This wizard has its
> flaws though... Google mail help mentions STARTTLS:
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
> 
> Speaking of myself I'm against of hiding all technical details of
> anything, at least if there is no sane way to access those settings
> when you really need them.

I wrote 'hiding [...] behind a "Detail settings" [...] expander'. I did 
not suggest hiding it behind something awkward like about:settings (or 
whatever it is where TB hides its settings).


Regards,
Ingo
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