Accounts creation window is unnaturally shaped

[Jane Silber]

See attached screenshot of the Social Account window (as invoked from the Me Menu). When first invoked the size seems unnatural and awkward.

The size seems to be driven by the size of the fields that appear once you select a social network, but if you look at each of the options (Flickr, etc) none seem to actually require that width. The longest fields are login IDs and passwords (see second screenshot), but that's an awfully wide field for that sort of data. Many networks have a right-aligned "message colour" that may be driving things to the right, but it's unclear why that one field is right-aligned when all the others are left-aligned (nor is it clear why it needs such a long bar of colour).

Overall it seems the layout of this window could be improved, resulting in a window that is more visually balanced (and probably smaller).

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Not an issue of the memenu. Its gwibber where memenu directs you when clicked on 'broadcast accounts'

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

I think there is plenty of room for improvement, we modeled this after empathy-accounts knowing they would both be accessed via the MeMenu.

However the content displayed is a bit, we can look at making that fit better next cycle.

[Jan Dageförde (de-diamonds)]

I think the account creation window is pretty unusable. When creating a new account I usually forget to hit the "add" button (as seen in screenshot 2 posted above), because I tend to believe the account has already been added after entering my credentials.
Maybe the Close button should be disabled or replaced by the "add" and "cancel" buttons. This would make the interface a lot more intuitive.

[mlissner (mlissner-michaeljaylissner)]

Not sure this warrants another bug, so I'll echo comment #5. I have done this two or three times, and it's not a huge deal, but it's certainly annoying.