On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM, <Dirk-Jan.Binnema@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Thanks for taking the time to comment in such detail. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ext Mike Lococo [mailto:mikelococo@xxxxxxxxx] > >> > There's currently no built-in way to handle this in modest; >> the reason >> > for the minimalism is that features tend to confuse many >> users (e-mail >> > setup is hard!). But obviously, that's not always the right >> choice for >> > users who know what they are doing... >> >> This may be a general comment, but since you're a Modest dev >> and it has >> the feel of "wontfix" about it, I'll make the case for the bug/rfe: > > The 'feel of "wontfix"'. Poetry :) Note that I am not too much involved > in Modest development at the moment, but obviously I am keeping a close > eye on it. > > <...> > >> 3) It would be possible to greatly improve the state of >> things without >> any additional options at all by issuing missing mailserver errors >> during the new message check as an info-alert (is that the right term >> for the little popup messages in the upper right-corner of the screen >> that don't require user interaction to clear?), rather than as two >> separate popup boxes requiring user interaction to clear (one error >> message + the account preferences box in order to "fix" the faulty >> account). It's worth noting that Modest already throws an >> error during >> account creation if the mailserver is bogus, so it's not necessary to >> issue such a loud error message during mail-check. > > Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe leaving the incoming mail server empty > would > be possible. But still, many users don't even understand the different > universes of incoming and outgoing mailservers, and its hard to make it > somehow hard for non-technical users to something wrong, while still > giving flexibility to powerusers... > > Best wishes, > Dirk. Many apps address this by having a simple interface with the basic unavoidable settings for the non-techies, and an "advanced" button to open up the possibilities for everybody else. Mark _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
