D21597: Change title of action to launch PIM Settings Exporter
Laurent Montel
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Wed Jun 5 19:07:32 BST 2019
mlaurent added a comment.
In D21597#474571 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D21597#474571>, @dfaure wrote:
> Yeah, well, right now it's a big mess, with 90% of the GUI talking about settings, and 10% talking about data.
>
> A very common use case for this is to export only settings. Emails are stored on IMAP, so they can be fetched again at destination.
> Of course pop3 users (assuming they still exist?)
Me for example :) I don't have sieve support in my perso email account :(
(a day I will create a lib for pop3 as for the moment it still uses kioslave)
> also need to transfer the emails, that's like a bonus feature in a settings exporter :-)
> As an IMAP user, it's scary to click on export data when I just want to export settings.
> For a POP3 user, if all you can find is a menu-item about exporting settings, you'll try that and you'll be glad to then realize it also exports the emails ;-)
>
> Brainstorming other solutions:
>
> - Import/Export KMail Settings/Emails... urgh, hard to read.
Indeed not good.
> - Two menuitems, which launch pimsettingsexporter with slightly different defaults?
People will not understand why there is two different menu entry...
> - s/Settings/Data/ *everywhere* in the pimsettingsexporter application (and possibly renaming it to pim-data-transfer or something...)
I think that it's the better solution no ?
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To: dfaure, mlaurent
Cc: kde-pim, dvasin, rodsevich, winterz, vkrause, mlaurent, knauss, dvratil
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