Account editor

[Etan Reisner]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:04:42PM -0400, Stu Tomlinson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:42 -0400, Etan Reisner wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 01:16:18PM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
> > > This doesn't seem like a hard problem for a computer to solve; indeed
> > > it seems exactly as if it were designed to be solved by computers,
> > > rather than people.
> > >
> > > -s.
> >
> > I never indicated that the problems are hard just that I don't see the
> > benefit we are trying to attain and that I recall the problems we had when
> > we tried to guess at adding @hotmail.com to MSN addresses.
>
> What problems? We do currently append @hotmail.com to MSN addresses
> entered without a domain portion. I don't know of any reported bugs or
> problems with this.

Then I'm thinking of other issues, or issues that have long since been
fixed. And unfortunately I don't recall the details, maybe Luke will.

And I have no problems automatically filling in a Domain/Server box with
gmail.com for Google Talk accounts, etc. (I didn't think we should have
removed jabber.org from the XMPP prpl) and think doing that sort of thing
should avoid virtually all of the problems we might have with multiple
entry areas.

However, given our current lack of an XMPP default (and the fact that
Google Talk jumps to XMPP) moving to a single entry box is likely to
confuse people who attempt to only put in a username in for an XMPP
account.

> Regards,
>
>
> Stu.

	-Etan (Who still has no real idea what problem we are trying to fix here.)