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

[Olli Salli]

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On 03.04.2011 14:03, David Edmundson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Francesco Nwokeka <
> francesco.nwokeka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 
> Could you expand on why anyone would add an account but not want to use it
> straight away?

You are on pay-per-bytes-transferred 3G and don't want your huge roster
of friends and their avatars to be downloaded just now? You were
configuring stuff at 4AM and don't want to admit to your friends that
your sleep schedule is screwed up by appearing online? Whatever, the
point is we are making a decision to connect without the user's explicit
consent.

> 
> As for the argument "they might stay connected without their knowledge",
> this isn't any different from when they close the contact list. I think
> we're hoping long term to get the presence applet into the default plasma
> setup, that should help things.
> 

My 2 cents is to either:

1) have the usual checkbox there in the final stage of account creation
"Yes, additionally connect this account I've just created straight away"

OR

2) have the "finish" or "create account" button be called something else
(I actually don't know what it is called currently, but bear with me)
which conveys the fact that it is going to connect in addition to
creating the account. "Create and sign on" maybe?

Either way, the user has been informed that the account is to be connected.

Br,
Olli
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