Re: addressbook prefs UI change proposal; feedback requested (was Re:LDAP server preferences)

[Matthew Thomas]

Dan Mosedale wrote:
>...
> 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?
>...

Please don't have a three-level hierarchy (mail/news --> account
-->identity). People will get lost. Just let people create multiple
accounts which happen to use the same servers -- that would achieve the
same thing, wouldn't it?

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Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla user interface QA
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