[Design] Specifying the default sharing account

[Brian Kirsch]

Hi Morgen,
For Mail, I never actually change what is the *default* account.

In the getCurrentIncomingAccount and getCurrentOutgoingAccount  
methods of
osaf.pim.mail, I stuck addition logic to determine the current  
account (default if setup else
  first setup account).

My reasoning for doing this was I found it weird from a user standpoint
that Chandler would change default accounts based on
implicit user actions taken in the Account Prefs dialog.

I would vote that the out of the box Chandler accounts are the  
*defaults* and never
change for Preview (restore is the exception). I think this makes  
more sense from a
user prospective.



-Brian


On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

>
> On Apr 17, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
>
>> So just to restate so I'm clear, it sounds like both Sharing and  
>> Email accounts are doing the same thing right now?
>
> No, that is not what Sharing is doing, and that is what I will need  
> to change it to do.
>
>> If there's no default account set up, then Chandler chooses the  
>> next one that's available? Can we stick with that for Preview?
>
> Well, I will *add* this functionality, which is not currently in  
> Sharing.
>
>> I agree that at some point, we will need to have a more  
>> sophisticated notion of Default accounts.
>
> I'm not sure what was wrong with what we had before.
>
>> One question: Morgen, the hack you described below doesn't  
>> actually change anything that the user can see?
>
> It is a subtle change:  if you bring up a fresh Chandler, add a  
> sharing account (without filling in the out-of-the-box DAV  
> account), then when you close the dialog, the account you just  
> added becomes the new default sharing account (which you'll see  
> marked as "Default" the next time you open the accounts dialog, and  
> which will be auto-selected the next time you publish a  
> collection).  If you happened to add multiple accounts at that  
> time, then one is randomly selected as the new default.







>
>> It just skips over the OOTB default sharing account and uses the  
>> next sharing account in the list as the default under the hood? I  
>> just tried Publishing in r13983.
>
> That works because of the hack I added in rev 13981.
>
>>
>> I think then what we have now for both Mail and Sharing is okay  
>> for Preview?
>
> I will go ahead and also add the logic that bkirsch added for Mail,  
> and we're done for Preview.
>
>
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