[Bug 275623] New: Akonadi "Could not Authenticate" missing information and can not resize window

[Remco Bloemen]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275623

           Summary: Akonadi "Could not Authenticate" missing information
                    and can not resize window
           Product: Akonadi
           Version: 4.6
          Platform: Gentoo Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: remco.bloemen at gmail.com


Created an attachment (id=60980)
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The messsage

Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.4) 
OS:                Linux

The Akonadi "Could Not Authenticate" message has two usability issues:

1) It does not give me any information on which account is involved. I have
several and it could be any one of them.

2) I can not resize the window, hence the window title is unreadable. All other
KDE windows can always be resized, a feature I find very usable. I do not see
the reason for not allowing this on this message.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start kmail with several accounts, some of which will fail the login process.

Actual Results:  
A number of fixed size dialogs with ambiguous error messages.

Expected Results:  
Unambiguous error messages in resizable windows. Or even beter: a single dialog
summarizing all errors, that way the user does not get a torrent of errors in
his face.

Here is why this goes wrong: the message uses the definite articles "the
server" and "the supplied username".

Now, according to wikipedia: "A definite article indicates that its noun is a
particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener. It may be the same thing
that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be something uniquely
specified."

Neither of which is the case, so please specify the exact server involved and
the exact usename involved.

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