APN Editor: MMS APN Proxy & Port should be prefixed with 'MMS'

Bug #1433259 reported by Tony Espy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ubuntu UX
Invalid
Medium
Matthew Paul Thomas
ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
New
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

This is being reported against vivid-proposed ( #139 ), but also exists on RTM. The bug is device-agnostic.

The Proxy and Port fields on the Custom MMS APN page should be prefixed with 'MMS' to prevent confusion, as the APN database exposes non-MMS Proxy and Port attributes which we might choose to display at some point. Prefixing these fields emphasizes that they're specifically used as a proxy for MMS messages vs. a proxy for generic Internet traffic.

Tags: apn
Tony Espy (awe)
summary: - [APN Editor] MMS APN Proxy & Port should be prefixed with 'MMS'
+ APN Editor: MMS APN Proxy & Port should be prefixed with 'MMS'
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That's an ux issue right?

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: added: apn
Changed in ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

It's possible for any of the other fields to have values specific to each data type too. The logical conclusion would be that we'd have not just "MMS proxy" and "MMS proxy port", but also "MMS user name", "MMS password", and eventually perhaps "MMS authentication" and "MMS protocol". That would be redundant. Instead, we just have "Custom MMS APN" -- and soon just "MMS APN" -- as the title for the dialog.

iOS uses the label "MMS Proxy" because its MMS APN settings are on the same screen as its Internet APN settings. And Android uses the labels "Proxy", "MMS proxy", and "MMS port" on the same screen because it lets you configure "an APN" which you then use for both Internet and MMS, and they might have different proxy values. Neither of those apply here.

Changed in ubuntu-ux:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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