[kontact] [Bug 344715] New: Simple interface for managing accounts

[Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=344715

            Bug ID: 344715
           Summary: Simple interface for managing accounts
           Product: kontact
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Kubuntu Packages
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com

The current interface is split in multiple places from where an account can be
managed. This is quite cumbersome for new users and especially for non tech
users.

Current layout for managing an account:
    - Separate location with all the identities
    - Separate location with all the incoming server
    - Separate location with all the outgoing server
    - Separate location with the contacts
    - Separate location with the calendar
    - Separate location with the tasks

For adding an account there's a wizard that helps with that, which in the case
of Kolab Groupware it adds all of the above.
For other types you'd have to add each one separately.

If by any reason there's a need to remove an account or perform certain changes
(the server URL has changed) this is incredibly tedious to do, because a user
would have to remove/modify each one of those separately, this way providing
much confusion amongst users.

As an example, Thunderbird groups accounts and each account has a submenu with
all of it's settings (identity, incoming and outgoing). We could go one step
further and provide full account control from one place, especially for
Groupware servers. In the meantime, not removing the possibility to add
separate account for each one of those. Maybe even allow multiple resources to
one account.

Currently our layout is focused on separate resources. My proposition is that
we group those resources to accounts, to ease their modification and removal.

Reproducible: Always

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