Adding accounts dialog should be redone
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Gwibber |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
When adding a new account, via the "manage accounts" dialog, the process is unintuitive and does not follow the GNOME HIG.
When clicking on "add", the user is presented with a popup, or context menu. These menus are meant to appear when a user right clicks on an item, or selects the item and presses shift-f10. obviously, clicking on a button does not qualify for this behavior.
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Obviously, this behavior occurs because the adding accounts dialog needs to be redone; there is no one dialog, there are at least 10, for each of the account types.
All of the separate dialogs that appear should be instead made into one dialog that changes given the account type that is selected in a new add account dialog.
The new behavior should be:
Click on Add. Pick the protocol from a drop down menu. The dialog should then be populated with options for that specific type of dialog. The user should add their account details, and then dismiss the dialog.
This solves the variance in styles of the account dialogs, and works more like Pidgin (as an example).
I agree with the feature improvement suggestion.
Pidgin has a better accounts management dialog.