Review of the update accounts UI
@sjoerds
Submitted by Sjoerd Simons Link to original bug (#671873)
Description
Created attachment 209464 Online xmpp account
As discussed on IRC one bug for all my niggles about the update accounts UI. I've attached 2 screenshots, one for editting an online account, one for editting an offline account.
Some of these probably need an actual designer looking at it though :)
For the online account:
- Personal details arrangement is horrible (too long strings in the key, birthday widgets is horrible)
- It has an "Edit connection parameters" button. Connection isn't really used anywhere else to talk to the user about their account settings.
- The avatar button strangely floats (not aligned at the top or bottom)
- There is an Identifier field. What is an identifier ?
- There is an Account field, which is a copy of what's in the banner
- The field names should probably be right aligned (see prior art in the control center, e.g. user accounts or system info dialogs)
- The avatar button should probably behave in the same way as it does in the user accounts dialog instead of simply throwing a filechooser in ones face.
- Suggestion: remove account and identifier fields, lay out alias and avatar like avatar and user-name are in the user accounts dialog.
For offline/disabled account:
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User is told to go online. They might well be online (globally), but the current account is disconnected. This should probably be explained differently (e.g. This account must be online to edit personal info or enable this account and go online).
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No information at all is displayed, while we can't edit it, we should still know the alias and the avatar if the account has ever gone online. On most IM accounts these shouldn't be configurable if offline though, but we can still at least show them.
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General nitpick, the banner says the account is disabled, but it has an on/off button next to it. Do we need the text at all ? or should it say the account is turned off ?
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As a general note, all the connection parameters editors look horrible, especially when it comes to editting advanced settings. although it looks like this could mostly be fixed if the advanced settings part wasn't in a scrollable.
Attachment 209464, "Online xmpp account":
Version: 3.3.x