954103 - redesign authorization requests

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Contacts window, enhancement)

Description

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 668 at 2011-01-28 14:18:00 UTC ***

The current authorization request dialog suffers from several problems, at least:
 - it's a modal dialog (boo!)
 - if you have several pending requests, there's no way to know how many requests you have until you have replied to all of them.
 - there's no good way to "decide later".
 - the dialog is not correctly removed if the request is no longer relevant (account disconnected, ...). It doesn't crash anymore though, since https://hg.instantbird.org/instantbird/rev/a866432fb03c.
 - some important information is missing (display name, buddy icon, account name, ...) (bug 953641 (bio 194))
 - there should be a way to add the authorized buddy to the buddy list (bug 953504 (bio 53)). Maybe this should be done automatically.

Comment 1

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 668 at 2011-05-23 16:31:14 UTC ***

It's too late to start working on this for 0.3.

Comment 2

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 668 at 2012-06-29 22:27:45 UTC ***

I *think* this was fixed by flo for 1.2, but I can't find the commit.

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 668 at 2012-07-11 11:48:06 UTC ***

(In reply to comment #0)
> The current authorization request dialog suffers from several problems, at
> least:
>  - it's a modal dialog (boo!)

I replaced the modal dialog with a notification bar at the top of the contacts window...

>  - the dialog is not correctly removed if the request is no longer relevant
> (account disconnected, ...).

... and handled this case for 1.2 in https://hg.instantbird.org/instantbird/rev/aeeb3eb04a8e / bug 954682 (bio 1251).

The other points listed in comment 0 haven't been addressed yet, and the authorization requests still suck. Just a little less than before :).

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

On the behalf of Florian:
Closing bugs related to the Instantbird UI as WONTFIX, as the development of the standalone chat client Instantbird has stopped. Instantbird users are encouraged to migrate to Thunderbird. The user interface of instant messaging in Thunderbird will feel familiar, as the Thunderbird IM support started as a fork of Instantbird.