Bug 3609

Summary:

path in File -> Add Mailbox -> MH dialogue

Product:

Claws Mail (GTK 2)

Reporter:

Dr.Snaut <shalnoff>

Component:

Assignee:

users

Status:

NEW ---

Severity:

enhancement

CC:

rep.dot.nop

Priority:

Version:

3.9.3

Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Switch Add mailbox MH dialog to dir-chooser	none

Description Dr.Snaut 2016-02-04 08:18:58 UTC

Hi guys, thank you for great product! 

I found an UI issue that is really annoying. I remember that I spent several hours on my first installation to figure out how to add accounts and today I spend almost hour just to remember how to do so again, when I need to add new account. 

The problem is simple. It is not clear that the field in [File -> Add Mailbox -> MH] dialogue is a relative path. It would be great to 

a) use clearly written note, that this is a path to directory of the mail account
b) make it absolute or add ~/ prefix in the begging by default. 

I believe that this little detail will safe a lot of time for other users. 
And honestly that was most significant non-intuitive bottleneck in UI of the client.  

thank you!

Comment 1 Paul 2016-02-04 09:49:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Hi guys, thank you for great product! 
> 
> I found an UI issue that is really annoying. I remember that I spent several
> hours on my first installation to figure out how to add accounts and today I
> spend almost hour just to remember how to do so again, when I need to add
> new account. 
> 
> The problem is simple. It is not clear that the field in [File -> Add
> Mailbox -> MH] dialogue is a relative path. It would be great to 

That's adding a mailbox not an account, '/Configuration/Create new account' is for that. But, anyway, your point remains.

Comment 2 Bernhard 2018-12-21 20:28:14 UTC

Created attachment 1945 [details]
Switch Add mailbox MH dialog to dir-chooser

I'd suggest the following:

From 2eabd85a64121df7e0d9ad417d470aacb4408d2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:46:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Switch Add mailbox MH dialog to dir-chooser

Fix bug #3609

Switch the dialog to add MH mailbox dir to a file chooser based
directory picker.