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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kdepim/kmail
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-02-28 1:36:42
Message-ID: 200502280236.42959.schumacher () kde ! org
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On Sunday 27 February 2005 23:19, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> CVS commit by danimo:
>
> less insulting for people that actually don't start it for the first
> time + rewording.
>
>
>   M +5 -2      accountwizard.cpp   1.2

Why is the wizard shown on startup of KMail anyway? This is annoying for 
all people wanting to see the program (e.g. because they already have 
configured an account or they just want to have a look). If the first 
impression of KMail is a potentially insulting dialog instead of the 
carefully crafted welcome page, we do something very wrong.

I would suggest to start the wizard only when:
- the user tries to send mail and no account is configured.
- the user tries to receive mail and no account is configured
- the user explicitly requests to configure a mail account

A very nice way is to put the wizard as link on the welcome page as done 
in Kontact. That feels just right. Forcing the wizard on the user on 
startup feels just wrong because it's way too intrusive. Configuring an 
application means pain to the user, so we should try to hide this as 
far as possible.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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