On 3/26/20 3:44 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:03 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org> wrote:
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>>> On 3/26/20 9:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>>>>> I don't see how any of the above, including Dave's patch, make things
>>>>> worse. Again I was just suggesting on how to display the credentials,
>>>>> not adding more steps to downloading the mbox.
>>>>
>>>> Well, Daves patch doesn't cover 2 out of 3 cases, that's a start :)
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>> I'm not clear what cases you're referring to, even after re-reading the thread.
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> The downloading of thread mailboxes, and the viewing of raw messages.
> It was in my first response :)
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>>>> And it makes it worse in that it goes in the very most "valuable
>>>> space" on the screen, for something that's focused on a tiny portion
>>>> of our users.
>>>>
>>>> I'm certainly not against making the information better, I'm just not
>>>> sure that's the best way.
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>>> We could move it to the bottom of the pages. Or add it to this page[1]
>>> and call it a day.
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>> Either would largely guarantee that users don't see it.
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>> I was going to suggest putting a help icon with popup hint on click next to the table header for the column, but
thenI noticed we don't actually have column headers.
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> We could put it just to the right of the download link though? There
> seems to be enough space for that with a large margin at least on
> desktops.
what about doing something completely different - like hiding those
links behind community auth and call it a day(especially with so few users)?
I dont see a problem with requiring community auth for downloading those
links as well as raw messages..
Stefan