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Bug 215167 - Account Creation Assistant is completely dissimilar from Account Editor
Account Creation Assistant is completely dissimilar from Account Editor
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.6.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[accounts]
Depends on: 638866
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-12 18:08 UTC by aaron
Modified: 2012-06-10 13:20 UTC
See Also:
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Description aaron 2001-11-12 18:08:32 UTC 
See also the bug on user-startup hints, but people are finding it
diffuclt/confusing to create an account, then go edit it, to make it useful.
(namespaces for IMAP specifically, but you get the idea)

Solution: the account assistant should provide a similar UI to the account
editor, with all the options in it.  Ideally, the editor and assistant
would be the same UI completely-- "optional" and "required" items, and
maybe something to step you through it for the assistant/new account
invocation.
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2001-11-20 19:13:04 UTC 
feature = future
Comment 2 André Klapper 2006-02-19 02:40:38 UTC 
still valid in 2.5
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2008-03-11 00:27:36 UTC 
Bumping version to a stable release.
Comment 4 Matthew Barnes 2012-06-10 13:20:12 UTC 
Gonna close this as WONTFIX.  I don't see any reason to trudge through all available options just to set up a new account.  For many email domains this is just a two-step operation now anyway: enter email address, confirm auto-config.