[Bug 269911] Telepathy Accounts KCM should reconnect when changed.

Francesco Nwokeka francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com
Sun Apr 3 12:07:27 CEST 2011


On Saturday 02 April 2011 21:01:09 Rohan Garg wrote:
> Hi
> This is in continuation to bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269911
> 
> We were discussing this issue on irc, and i currently have a patch that
> reconnects the account when the details are changed, but we reached a
> deadlock on whether or not the account should connect automatically when
> it's added by the KCM module.
> 
> According to Martin Klapetek, when a user finishes adding his/her account,
> they do not realize that they have been automatically connected and thus
> they stay connected without their knowledge.Whereas me and David Edmundson
> think that this should be the default behavior since a user is sent back to
> the KCM after adding a account, where their current status is shown and
> it's only natural that the account to connect to the service as soon as
> one is done adding it.
> 
> We would like to hear everyone's views on this before changing this
> behavior.
I too share Martin's idea. It should be the user to decide weather or not to connect with the 
recently added account.


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