GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713850
Don't offer Nickname when creating additional accounts
Last modified: 2018-12-27 00:58:35 UTC
---- Reported by jim@yorba.org 2013-11-04 16:15:00 -0800 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 7672 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/7672 Searchable id: yorba-bug-7672 Original author: Jim Nelson Original description: Even though I consider myself a moderately sophisticated user, I routinely get confused when adding a new account by the various fields. Nine times out of ten I'll type my email address or password in the wrong edit field. Admittedly I'm rushing through the steps (usually trying to test something out), but that's a hint to me that this dialog is too much. I propose the Create Account dialog be limited to the following fields: * Service type (Gmail/Yahoo/Outlook.com) * Real name (which is always filled in with the user's real name, see #7671). * Email address * Password ...and that's it. The Nickname defaults to the email address. The user can edit that in the Accounts Manager (along with the other fields). Note that what I'm describing is how the Welcome dialog already works. The "Other" service type is, of course, more detailed, but I think can still be simplified by removing the Nickname field and defaulting to email address, as above. --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:23 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 7672 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7672 Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
See also bug #730707
Marking as a dupe of bug 730707 since that's a bit more general. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 730707 ***
Changing my mind about nicknames bit. In Bug 714643 accounts are likely to get a "display_name" property - that can return the nickname if non-empty, else the primary email. That means that the nickname can indeed left out when creating additional accounts (per this bug), however also importantly in the account settings, it can also be made optional and left blank, rather than being prefilled with the primary email address. This avoids the confusion of having multiple otherwise unrelated fields with the same value. I'm adding a dependency on Bug 714104 since that's turning into a complete "Account Dialog redesign" ticket.
Remove bugs from 0.13 with dependencies on others.
Fixed on master by https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/merge_requests/71