Bug 275623 - Akonadi "Could not Authenticate" ambiguous and can not resize window
Summary: Akonadi "Could not Authenticate" ambiguous and can not resize window
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Akonadi
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.6
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2011-06-14 11:52 UTC by Remco Bloemen
Modified: 2011-07-07 10:49 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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The messsage (34.07 KB, image/png)
2011-06-14 11:52 UTC, Remco Bloemen
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Description Remco Bloemen 2011-06-14 11:52:28 UTC
Created attachment 60980 [details]
The messsage

Version:           4.6 (using KDE 4.6.4) 
OS:                Linux

The Akonadi "Could Not Authenticate" message has two usability issues:

1) It does not give me any information on which account is involved. I have several and it could be any one of them.

2) I can not resize the window, hence the window title is unreadable. All other KDE windows can always be resized, a feature I find very usable. I do not see the reason for not allowing this on this message.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start kmail with several accounts, some of which will fail the login process.

Actual Results:  
A number of fixed size dialogs with ambiguous error messages.

Expected Results:  
Unambiguous error messages in resizable windows. Or even beter: a single dialog summarizing all errors, that way the user does not get a torrent of errors in his face.

Here is why this goes wrong: the message uses the definite articles "the server" and "the supplied username".

Now, according to wikipedia: "A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one (or ones) identifiable to the listener. It may be the same thing that the speaker has already mentioned, or it may be something uniquely specified."

Neither of which is the case, so please specify the exact server involved and the exact usename involved.
Comment 1 Laurent Montel 2011-07-07 10:24:18 UTC
it's right it will better to improve it (perhaps show server url or resource name)
Comment 2 Laurent Montel 2011-07-07 10:49:18 UTC
Ok fixed in master now I added account name.
It's a kmessagebox so size is adapted to content. So no a real problem.
I can close it.
Thanks for reporting this bug