19935 - User-name/password and wallet dialogs should be merged

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 13228

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

From: [e-mail] (Matthew Thomas)
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.ui
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


Kalin Kojouharov wrote:
>...
> When you enter password protected area (.htaccess) browser asks you
> for login/passw. After that it asks whether to remember this password
> or not. However the dialog is Ok/Cancel.
>
> I think it should be more appropriate to be Yes/No!
>...

Sounds like a job for overlays. On Windows, the platform-consistent
solution would be:

+-------------------------------------------+
|[] Mozilla ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
+-------------------------------------------+
| /r,\ Remember this password?              |
| \! /                                      |
|                                           |
| [*] Always ask to remember passwords      |
|                                           |
|            (( Yes )) (  No  )             |
+-------------------------------------------+

On MacOS, it would be:

+-------------------------------------------+
|[] Mozilla ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::|
+-------------------------------------------+
| /r,\ Remember this password?              |
| \! /                                      |
|  _                                        |
| [*] Always ask to remember passwords      |
|                                           |
|         ( Don't remember ) (( Remember )) |
+-------------------------------------------+

Actually, now I come to think of it, there should only be one dialog,
not two.

+------------------------------------------------+
|[] Authentication required :::::::::::::::::::::|
+------------------------------------------------+
| Enter user name and password for {blah}        |
| at {server-name}:                              |
|            __________________________________  |
| User name [__________________________________] |
| Password  [__________________________________] |
|            _                                   |
|           [_] Remember username and password   |
|                                                |
|                          ( Cancel ) ((  Ok  )) |
+------------------------------------------------+

Wouldn't that be so much simpler?

Regards
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, usability weenie
http://critique.net.nz/

Comment 1

[Stephen P. Morse]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13032 ***

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Since it was my message quoted here, I'm reopening this bug to request what I
actually wanted (once I'd thought about it): the username/password and the
remember/don't dialogs should be merged.

The idea that two separate dialogs should be shown consecutively, in a situation
where you can be almost certain that both will be shown, is bizarre from a
usability point of view. Especially when the whole of the second dialog can be
replaced by a single checkbox, as shown in my post.

Note that if this was fixed, it would render bug 13032 irrelevant. (The combined
dialog would still need to use OS-specific overlays for its buttons, of course.)

Comment 3

[Stephen P. Morse]

Well now you are changing the bug from yes/no dialogs to multiple dialogs.  That
really should have been opened as a separate bug report because otherwise it
makes resolution of the bug difficult.  The bug as originally reported is a dup
of bug 13032 as already mentioned.  The bug as ammended is a dup of bug 13228
(see also item 2 of bug 13022).  Since a bug can only be assigned to be a dup of
one other bug, I'm stymied as to what the correct resolution should be now.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13228 ***

Comment 4

[Dan Erikson]

I agree with morse.  Marking it as a dup of 13228 sounds ok.
Marking as VERIFIED.