Bug 334173 - Receiving Accounts: untidy layout, unusual Retrieval Options control
Summary: Receiving Accounts: untidy layout, unusual Retrieval Options control
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kmail2
Classification: Applications
Component: config dialog (show other bugs)
Version: Git (master)
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2014-05-01 11:32 UTC by Jonathan Marten
Modified: 2023-02-03 15:02 UTC (History)
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2014-05-01 11:33 UTC, Jonathan Marten
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Description Jonathan Marten 2014-05-01 11:32:52 UTC
See attached screen shot.  Although everything in this dialogue works as expected, the layout has some anomalies:

- The "Retrieval Options" button for each resource is not centered properly and has no top or right margin.

- This being a dropdown button which brings up a checkable list of options is not a familiar control and needs two clicks to change a single option (2 clicks per option if more than one needs to be changed).

- The "Customize accounts order" button below is so wide that at first glance it is not recognisable as a pushbutton, due to the big blank areas to left and right.  It's not clear what this button does, either - there is no tool tip, whats this or dialogue help.

Suggestions to improve the appearance and operation are:

- Remove the Retrieval Options from the scrolling list and have it as a dialogue accessed from a new button on the right (between "Modify" and "Remove").  This is a more familiar way of interaction and has the advantage that as many options as needed can be changed in a single operation.
- Right align (with appropriate margins) the "Customize accounts order" button, and give it a tool tip and/or whats this.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2014-05-01 11:33:35 UTC
Created attachment 86387 [details]
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Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2023-02-03 15:02:55 UTC
See also bug 311191 and bug 293688.