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

[Martin Klapetek]

2011/4/3 David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>

>
>
> 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?
>
> 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.
>

There might be many reasons, let it be personal, or that some people goes
online only in hidden state (invisible) or simply because it might be a
usability issue - don't do something without the user knowing it (in this
case it applies). Argument can be that they will see it as online right
after closing the wizard, True, but it's not something to depend on (ie.
that part of the window can be off screen etc).

I say let the user connect automatically by adding a checkbox in the last
step of the wizard, saying "Connect after this is done".

Marty
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