GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 330213
Default Account checkbox should be checked and insensitive for the default account
Last modified: 2012-06-10 13:25:44 UTC
Steps to reproduce this problem: 1.Ctrl+Shift+S In Mail Accounts, select Default Mail account 2.Now select Edit Button Actual Results: "Make this my default connection" check box is not checked for default account Expected Results: "Make this my default connection" check box should be checked for default account Occurs Everytime: Yes
Rajeev, please do *not* confirm your own bugs, unless you have a very good reason to. This defeats the purpose of confirmation by the developers and getting a second opinion. Anyway, can confirm this with Evo 2.4. Severity trivial. (Haven't seen any complaint about this yet on the lists, IRC or bugzilla. Doesn't seem to be an issue to the users, thus refusing to add a usability keyword.)
Since we always want to have a default account: Simply checking that checkbox is *not* sufficient, cause it enables the user to un-check it. If at all, this checkbox need to be checked and *insensitive*. Unsetting a default account may not be permitted. Settins a new default account should be the only way to go. Adjusting Summary.
*** Bug 329747 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hmm, according to some other bugs and comments... Evolution should not and does not *enforce* a default account. Anyway, that text currently says "Make this my default account", which is an active "changing state" action. It does not say something along the line that this actually *is* a default account... Hmm...
Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/51441 "1. Open Evolution Preferences/Mail Accounts 2. Select your default account 3. Click 'Edit' 4. Under "Optional Information" note that the "Make this account my default account" checkbox isn't checked. Expected behaviour: That checkbox should be checked I'd question if that checkbox should even be there, as it's role appears more suited to a button - which already exists in Evolution Preferences/Mail Accounts"
Bumping version to a stable release.
(In reply to comment #5) > I'd question if that checkbox should even be there, as it's role appears more > suited to a button - which already exists in Evolution Preferences/Mail > Accounts" I think it's more for the benefit of the account setup wizard, but it doesn't need to be in the wizard either. Initial account should automatically be the default (not sure if it does this already). Anyway, still present in 2.25.90.
*** Bug 494415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 578215 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Checkbox was removed in the account editor rewrite for Evolution 3.5.3. Closing this as OBSOLETE.