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bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more
From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:17:51 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110014 (No Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:
> LMI> The question that's relevant is "do you want to save the password?"
> LMI> That's the only thing a normal user could possibly be interested in, and
> LMI> it's a yes or no question.
>
> I disagree. It's a single extra letter in a y/n prompt. I don't see
> how it's intrusive. You can set auth-source-never-save to t right now
> and never even see the y/n prompt. I've accomodated all the prompting
> suggestions but I'm not removing that functionality.
It's an extra letter, but it's a completely incomprehensible extra
choice for the users. I know that when I'm using something, I don't
want to be faced with options that I have no possible interest in.
The normal reaction to such a prompt is "oh, should I edit this? How
should I edit this? Do I need to edit this?"
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <=
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/05
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/07
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/07
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- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
- Message not available
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/08
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/08
- Message not available
- Re: bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Ted Zlatanov, 2011/03/09
- bug#8050: Gnus does not connect to my IMAP server any more, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/09