Hi,
now I'll just short:
> I guess I don't understand the point of the hidden file. Why not store
> all preferences in prefs.js?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think Netscape does that. I don't want to do
that. We should store in prefs.js the LDAP related preferences too.
> > -csid (UTF-8)
>
> What's a csid?
Additional ldapsearch parameters:
-i. Character set. Specifies the character set to use for command line
input. The default is the character set specified in the LANG
environment variable. You might want to use this parameter to perform
the conversion from the specified character set to UTF8, thus overriding
the environment variable setting.
Using this argument, you can input the bind DN, base DN, and the search
filter pattern in the specified character set. ldapsearch converts the
input from these arguments before it processes the search request. For
example, -i no indicates that the bind DN, base DN, and search filter
are provided in Norwegian.
> > -filename of the adressbook file
>
> For storing a local copy of the LDAP data?
Netscape stores the last query in a local file, what you have even after
restarting Netscape. It can have advantages and disadvantages too.
> Is this necessary? I would assume that when an admin has multiple LDAP
> servers, they'd just have multiple DNS A records pointing the single
> server name to multiple IP addresses, which would be returned in a
> single array by gethostbyname().
No. It isn't necessary. It can be a future preference. It is just a
feature of the LDAP protocol, what we can use and we don't have to
depend on admins.
Some of my questions corresponding your document on the mozilla site:
Where do you want to have a UI to add the Directories to the system? Do
you wanr to have it in the Addressbook File menu point?
If I understand well, we would add some Directory entry to the Mozilla,
and after we would be able to select from them, which one do we want to
use for autocompletion. You would have separate tick box per directroy
entry. Is it right?
In my opinion the "Don't return more than X results" should not be a
hidden preference. We should have a default value with it, which can be
overwritten by the "advanced" users.
What do you mean about per account typedown pane?
What do you mean about this:
"Move rest of Address Books pane to Mail/News global pane (a la the SMTP
server), with an eye towards moving it to a per-account pane in the
future "
Where do we have any per account preferences at the moment?
Thanks
Csaba
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