Hi Morgen,
For Mail, I never actually change what is the *default* account.
In the getCurrentIncomingAccount and getCurrentOutgoingAccount
methods of
osaf.pim.mail, I stuck addition logic to determine the current
account (default if setup else
first setup account).
My reasoning for doing this was I found it weird from a user standpoint
that Chandler would change default accounts based on
implicit user actions taken in the Account Prefs dialog.
I would vote that the out of the box Chandler accounts are the
*defaults* and never
change for Preview (restore is the exception). I think this makes
more sense from a
user prospective.
-Brian
On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:
On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
So just to restate so I'm clear, it sounds like both Sharing and
Email accounts are doing the same thing right now?
No, that is not what Sharing is doing, and that is what I will need
to change it to do.
If there's no default account set up, then Chandler chooses the
next one that's available? Can we stick with that for Preview?
Well, I will *add* this functionality, which is not currently in
Sharing.
I agree that at some point, we will need to have a more
sophisticated notion of Default accounts.
I'm not sure what was wrong with what we had before.
One question: Morgen, the hack you described below doesn't
actually change anything that the user can see?
It is a subtle change: if you bring up a fresh Chandler, add a
sharing account (without filling in the out-of-the-box DAV
account), then when you close the dialog, the account you just
added becomes the new default sharing account (which you'll see
marked as "Default" the next time you open the accounts dialog, and
which will be auto-selected the next time you publish a
collection). If you happened to add multiple accounts at that
time, then one is randomly selected as the new default.
It just skips over the OOTB default sharing account and uses the
next sharing account in the list as the default under the hood? I
just tried Publishing in r13983.
That works because of the hack I added in rev 13981.
I think then what we have now for both Mail and Sharing is okay
for Preview?
I will go ahead and also add the logic that bkirsch added for Mail,
and we're done for Preview.
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