bhuvan wrote:
>...
> I am working on a feature where we would like to have 'Get Msg' button
> turned on in all cases or in most of
> the cases. There are couple of issues involved here..
>...
> We need a pref in mailnews prefs panel so that user can enable or
> disable this feature.
> A pref that says "Get Messages for all (authenticated)
> accounts".
Why? What would the alternative be? `Get messages for a random selection
of accounts'?
> 2. 'Get Msg' button visibility
> a. When do we want to show this button and when to hide.
The button should always be visible, just not necessarily enabled.
> I think we should display it in all cases except when we select a
> news server (note: not newsgroup).
It should be enabled when a news server is selected. In that case, it
would update the message counts for every group on that server, just as
expanding the server's twisty does.
> 3. 'Get Msg' button functionality
> a. Get messages for all accounts vs all authenticated accounts.
>
> Authenticated accounts are the ones for which password is
> remembered for.
That's a poor choice of terminology. The intuitive meaning of
`authenticated accounts' is those which require a password -- that is,
all of them.
> It will be appropriate to get messages only for authenticated
> accounts.
Why? The fact that I don't trust the rest of my family not to check my
e-mail (and therefore don't ask for Mozilla to remember the password),
shouldn't mean that I have to go around checking all my mail accounts
individually. A single click of the `Get Messages' button should check
all my accounts. (In the unlikely event that I just want to check an
individual account, I should be able to do that from a `Get Messages'
submenu in the `File' menu.)
>...
Until I understand what the pref is for, I can't comment on the rest of
your questions.
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