Advanced Options in the Accounts KCM

[George Kiagiadakis]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Lasath Fernando <kde at lasath.org> wrote:
> 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?


I like very much this idea, so ++ from me.
In the case of the jabber dialog, maybe its options should be split
into more tabs so that they fit in less space?