Bug 279046

Summary:	Make it easier to find the most common protocols in the AccountsKCM.
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] telepathy	Reporter:	David Edmundson <kde>
Component:	accounts-kcm	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ddomenichelli, florian.reinhard, grundleborg, mklapetek, rohan
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	git-latest
Target Milestone:	0.4.0
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description David Edmundson 2011-08-01 14:49:55 UTC

The problem:
 When you create an account the list of available protocols is quite large and a pain to search through. 

A possible solution:
 I'm thinking this could take the form of offering a list of
"Facebook, GMail, Jabber, MSN, Other" With large clear icons.

Selecting 'other' opens the full list (that we currently have)

Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2011-08-01 14:59:20 UTC

I'm adding an older KMail mockup here for a possible reference -- http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/i441/Eugene_M/KMailAccountSettingWizard.png

We could probably use something like that too.

Comment 2 George Goldberg 2011-09-17 10:39:18 UTC

Assigned to d_ed for the 0.2 release.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2011-10-10 13:36:10 UTC

not done in time. Removing from 0.2

Comment 4 Martin Klapetek 2011-11-03 14:09:06 UTC

I'm about to work on this in my clone, what accounts would you suggest to have in the most used ones?

*Facebook Chat
*GTalk
*Jabber
*Windows Live Messenger

Anything else?

Comment 5 Rohan Garg 2011-12-09 20:22:58 UTC

I would add ICQ to that list because I've heard it's still quite popular in some countries. Maybe IRC as well?

Comment 6 Martin Klapetek 2011-12-11 20:43:26 UTC

ICQ is still heavily used in Czech republic, true that. On the other hand, could the absence of such (rather obscure) protocols and promoting services like Jabber, lead (at least some) users to switch to the better supported one?

Comment 7 Florian Reinhard 2011-12-29 13:17:55 UTC

See https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103562/
and commit http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=ktp-accounts-kcm.git&a=commitdiff&h=5207551faeae5ef54c55c492f84debb8a2a97374

Todo: Give make the former fist page of the AddAccount Assistant (list of profiles) a nice ui.

Comment 8 Daniele E. Domenichelli 2012-01-01 21:39:45 UTC

Done by Florian, closing this.