Proposal for new XMPP account settings: worse or better?

Mark Doliner mark at kingant.net
Fri Aug 27 03:29:06 EDT 2010


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Paul Aurich <paul at darkrain42.org> wrote:
> I'd like some input on http://www.pidgin.im/nopaste/129 -- do people
> think this is an improvement or step backward?  (If it's an improvement,
> do people like "TLS" or "STARTTLS"?)
>
> Ignore the fact the setting doesn't actually do anything in the prpl --
> I figured I'd solicit feedback on the UI part first.

I don't think I understand the need for "Use STARTTLS (if available)."
 Shouldn't we always use it if it's available?  I believe that's what
we do now, right?

Also, maybe "Require encryption"?

--Mark




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