[kmail2] [Bug 334173] New: Receiving Accounts: untidy layout, unusual Retrieval Options control

[Jonathan Marten]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334173

            Bug ID: 334173
           Summary: Receiving Accounts: untidy layout, unusual Retrieval
                    Options control
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: Git (master)
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: config dialog
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: jjm at keelhaul.me.uk

See attached screen shot.  Although everything in this dialogue works as
expected, the layout has some anomalies:

- The "Retrieval Options" button for each resource is not centered properly and
has no top or right margin.

- This being a dropdown button which brings up a checkable list of options is
not a familiar control and needs two clicks to change a single option (2 clicks
per option if more than one needs to be changed).

- The "Customize accounts order" button below is so wide that at first glance
it is not recognisable as a pushbutton, due to the big blank areas to left and
right.  It's not clear what this button does, either - there is no tool tip,
whats this or dialogue help.

Suggestions to improve the appearance and operation are:

- Remove the Retrieval Options from the scrolling list and have it as a
dialogue accessed from a new button on the right (between "Modify" and
"Remove").  This is a more familiar way of interaction and has the advantage
that as many options as needed can be changed in a single operation.
- Right align (with appropriate margins) the "Customize accounts order" button,
and give it a tool tip and/or whats this.


Reproducible: Always

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