Advanced Options in the Accounts KCM

[Lasath Fernando]

Hi Everyone,

This is really my first time writing to the Mailing List, so bear with
me if I say the wrong things ;)

The reason I'm writing is because of the way advanced options are
displayed in the Accounts KCM. Once the Advanced button is clicked on
the edit accounts dialogue, it promptly opens *another* dialogue with
the advancedOptionsWidget. Personally, I think this is unintuitive,
and inefficient as this dialogue not only obscures the basic options,
but it also means the user has to press two buttons to apply their
changes.

And being the new kid on the block who doesn't know how the streets
work, I straight away got started on implementing something better. I
was inspired by how emapthy managed to handle this gracefully, and
came up with something similar (using a Flat QPushButton).

Normally, the advanced options are still hidden and out of the way. (I
also thought the old button looked out of place there).
http://local.lasath.org/settings_normal.png

When the user clicks it, the advanced options are shown within the same dialoge:
http://local.lasath.org/settings_advanced.png

The only problem I could see so far was with the Jabber plugin:
http://local.lasath.org/settings_advanced_jabber.png
Its advancedOptionsWidget is rather large, and causes the dialogue to
expand quite a bit.

Anyway, David Edmundson kindly informed me a little while ago that
since this is a significant change, I should consult the mailing list
first.

So... what do you guys think?


-- 
Cheers,
The kid from down under,
Lasath Fernando