805031 - [email] New account signup field prefills "gmail", hiding what the field is for

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect)

Description

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

after unboxing, click on email, choose "gmail account"

The top field says "name", the bottom field says "password" and the middle field is prefilled with "gmail.com" (sic).

It takes some prior knowledge to realize you're supposed to edit that field and put "myusername@" before the "gmail.com"

I suggest just not putting anything into the field. If people put only their username in it, add @gmail.com internally. If people put the whole thing into it, great.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Attachment: Screenshot

Screenshot of the issue.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is confusing, and there are a few dupes, but it's not enough to block the release.

Comment 3

[Casey Yee]

The input fields should have labels describing the input field:

Account name
[input field]

Gmail Username
[input field]

Password
[input field]

Comment 4

[Brion Vibber]

Couldn't figure out how to set up my mail until I found the description in this bug of what to do with the unlabeled second field (I assumed it was 'server' and didn't need anything else filled in).

Note that Google Mail accounts do not necessarily end in @gmail.com -- they may be Google Apps addresses or others.

Comment 5

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

This is fixed with the patches landed on bug 809552.  We tried doing the labeled inputs as per comment 3, but screen real estate concerns made us bail on that in favor of just using placeholders.

Comment 8

[Mila Davydova]

Veified as fixed with Unagi, build ID 20120102070202