[Kde-pim] IMAP/Pop3 Config UIs

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 28 March 2010, Casey Link wrote:
> I've taken the comments into consideration, and tried to improve the
> mockups.
> 
> As suggested, the detailed, technical options were moved to an
> Advanced tab. Because this would have resulted in their being 4
> dialogs, I removed the IMAP settings tab and placed those options
> under advanced in order to keep the complexity of the dialog low.
> 
> I added the port and description fields to the General tab, and moved
> the subscription settings to Advanced.
> 
> I simplified the wall of authentican options into a ComboBox, and for
> the sake of comparison showed the port number in the Advanced tab
> too, because I think it might do better their (as opposed to in the
> General Tab).
> 
> The "Empty" Label and progress bar are for showing the status of the
> autodetection.

Will people understand what the progress bar means? Actually, I'm not 
even sure what this progress bar is supposed to indicate. Is it the 
quota?

I would put the Connection Settings on a separate tab. Reasoning: 
Today's displays are much wider than tall and especially displays of 
netbooks and, even more so, the display of the N900 are awfully limited 
in height. The mock-up is 628 pixels tall. So it won't fit on an 800x600 
screen. And that without even taking the task bar into account which 
might reduce the height even more (unless it's on the left instead of at 
the bottom). IMO our dialogs should be optimized for wide displays.

Also, a lot of the options present in the current IMAP Settings are 
missing, e.g. "local subscription", "namespaces" and a few others (that 
might not really be needed). Okay, local subscription might not be 
necessary anymore because the caching options can be specified per 
folder, but what about namespaces? Do we assume that namespaces always 
work and thus are not necessary in the dialog? (They definitely do not 
work out-of-the-box for all IMAP servers.)

Also, "local subscription" could be useful for netbooks or smart phones 
where you don't want to see the full list of folders, but just a few 
important ones. Or can this be selected elsewhere? If yes, where?

The more I think about it, I don't think we should deviate too much from 
the current IMAP account settings dialog.

The changes on the General tab are mostly okay, but the proposal for 
setting the mail check interval is a no-go because it is not 
localizable. In some localizations the spin box will have to be in the 
middle of the text or even on the left of the text.

I like the combobox for the authentication methods.

I don't like the choice of encryption settings. Does SSL with STARTTLS 
make sense? Does TLS without STARTTLS make any sense? Is the user 
supposed to enter the port manually if he needs the imaps port instead 
of the imap port? (Currently, we use the imaps port if the user selects 
SSL. Otherwise, we use the standard imap port. So, usually, the user 
doesn't need to worry about the port.)


Regards,
Ingo
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