77782 - Network Preferences - promotion to under Advanced

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

I would like to see the Networking preference be under the Advanced category. 
This would be moved from being under teh Debug category.

I would also like to move the FTP "Send this email address" pref moved to this
new pane.

Comment 1

[Blake Ross]

Advanced should be the last category, should it not?  Cc'ing Matthew to 
evaluate the current Networking panel. Judging from the apparent complexity of 
it, it probably belongs in Advanced.  If we decide that it does indeed warrant 
its own category (which would surprise me), we should consider putting Proxies 
and possibly Cache under it.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

This isn't just a request for movement of prefs from one category to another. 
Because the `Debug' category is included only for debugging purposes, this is a 
request for the introduction of GUI for these networking prefs into non-test 
Mozilla distributions.

Given that I've never seen any other Web browser offer GUI for these options, 
and that the trend is for such arcane options to decrease over time (Mozilla 
hasn't had a GUI for `number of simultaneous connections' for some years now), 
I'd like to know why the reporter thinks these networking prefs would be useful 
for anything except `debugging', which is where they already are.

The only option I can see in this panel which could possibly be useful is the 
`Enable html directory listing' pref. And I think that should be in the `View' 
menu (`as Links', applying to Web pages as well as directory listings), not in 
the Preferences.

Eventually the `Advanced' category of prefs should go away altogether. By this 
I don't mean that all the options under `Advanced' should lose their GUI, but 
that `Advanced' is a silly way to categorize prefs which should be categorized 
by topic instead.

Comment 3

[Chris McAfee]

what prefs need to show up?  Some of the debug ones should probably
stay debug, as mpt suggests.

Comment 4

[Jason Bassford]

> I would like to see the Networking preference be under the Advanced
> category. 

Ah - it is now.  The last post to this bug was May 2nd, 2001.

Resolving as FIXED.  If there's a problem with that, feel free to reopen and
assign as appropriate or clarify request.

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

->FIXED

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yep, vrfy'd fixed with 2003.02.10 comm trunk bits on win2k, mac 10.2.3 and linux
rh8.0.