Srilatha Moturi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Jennifer, I looked at the screen shots and they are very different
> > > from what we had in the proposal.
> > >
> > > * Directory pane should be in the preferences either under
> > > mail/news or Advanced. The directory pane will be same as
> > > Directory Servers dialog you had in the screen shots plus an
> > > Advanced button.
> > >
> > Do you mean in the Global Preferences (Edit --> Preferences) or in the
> > Mail/News Account Settings dialogs (Edit --> Mail/News Account
> > Settings)? I'm guessing you mean the Global Prefs. I think it will be
> > very hard to users to find this here. A problem that 4.x had is that
> > users selected which LDAP server they wanted to search against in the AB
> > pref panel, but it was completely unclear to them that they had to go to
> > a completely different place to setup or modify an LDAP server. (They
> > had to do this step first by using the menus in the AB.) We should try
> > not to make this same mistake. It should be clear from the place the
> > user selects the LDAP server they want to use, how to edit or add LDAP
> > servers.
> >
> > Hence, if you want users to enable/disable LDAP autocomplete and (in the
> > future) select which LDAP server to use, to be in the Mail/News Account
> > Settings per account, editing or creating LDAP servers should be an off
> > shoot of that setting not in a whole different location.
>
> Actually we want to do enable/disable LDAP autocomplete in the
> mail/news account setting per account now(not future).
So I've been thinking about this a bit, and it's a little unclear to
me whether the typedown preferences should be per-identity, rather
than just per-account. The current UI prefs are confusing to me, in
that they don't permit multiple identities per account, even though
the underlying code supports it (and I suspect that many people would
find this useful). Any thoughts on this?
> Then we have to put editing or creating LDAP servers in the typedown
> pane. This we will have one per mail/news account(Edit-> Mail/News
> Account Settings). Dmose, Leif any comments on this.
Note that in the relatively near future, there will also be for LDAP
addressbooks (separate from LDAP autocomplete). So that dialog will
also make use of the directory server configuration info. So if the
typedown pane needs a button to edit that info, the addressbook pane
would too. Is that ok?
Dan
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