- Directory pane should be in the preferences either under mail/news or Advanced. The directory pane will be same as Directory Servers dialog you had in the screen shots plus an Advanced button.
- We need to have an Advanced options dialog.
- The Autocompletion part of the Address books pane should be in the Mail/News Account settings. We will have one pane per mail/news account.(if Scott and Candice agree with this change). In this pane we will also have the typedown pane described in the propsal.
- Move rest of Address Books pane to Mail/News global pane (a la the SMTP server), with an eye towards moving it to a per-account pane in the future (if Scott and Candice agree with this change).
Srilatha
Jennifer Glick wrote:
OK, here is my attempt at some screen shots for this.http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/addressbook/LDAP.html
Let me know were I'm wrong or what I'm missing.
Dan Mosedale wrote:
> [distribution widened, as I think .mail-news readers are likely to care
> about this]
>
> Csaba Borbola wrote:
>
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > thanks for the answers Kevin and Dan.
> > I won't do much work this week, because I'm on a course.
> >
> > My part in the LDAP address book project is to do the preferences.
> > I would like to know, how did you think to do the preferences settings
> > for the autocompletion.
>
> A very timely question... a few of us eClient folks sat down just
> yesterday and came up with a straw-man proposal on this very thing.
>
> > If you want to use the autocompletion, somewhere you have to specify the
> > Directory Server settings, don't you?
>
> > Are you going to do the way as Netscape 4.x has?
>
> What we came up with is something like what Netscape 4.x does, but put
> together in a way that fits into the Mozilla preferences style. It has
> separate panes for Directory, Addressbook, and Autocompletion prefs, and
> we've started out only by specifying the Directory and Autocompletion
> panes, since that's what we're concentrating on first.
>
> <http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/proposals/LDAPAddressingPrefs.html>
> is an approximate description of what we came up with (unfortunately
> couched in my rather terse note-taking style). We'd love to hear
> feedback from any and all corners, especially from the current Mozilla
> owners of the addressbook preferences UI.
>
> > I did a short investigation at the beginning about the problem. This is
> > really a short description. I attach that at the end of my mail.
> >
> > So it would be really nice to clarify the overlapping tasks
> > corresponding the preferences work, because there is no point to
> > do the same work twice.
>
> Absolutely; I look forward to your comments.
>
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Csaba
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> >
> > LDAP related settings in Netscape 4.7:
> >
> > In address book :
> > Add directory menu point -> Dialog is asking for the followings:
> >
> > Description - name appearing in the left pane
> > LDAP server - name of the LDAP directory server
> > Server Root - this is the search base inside the directory tree
> > Port number - LDAP directory server port number
> > Max. number of hits - max number of matches for the query
> >
> > checkbox for login with name and password - if you tick it, the
> > Netscape will drop you out a login name and password dialog
> > box before connedcting the directory server
> >
> > checkbox for secure mode
> >
> >
> >
> > Edit menu point -> Preferences -> Mail & Newsgroups -> Addressing
> >
> > Look for addresses in the following:
> > checkbox for local addressbook
> > checkbox for Directory server
> > drop down box for selecting from the installed directory servers
> >
> > When there are multiple addresses found:
> > show me a list of choices and accept what i have typed selective
> > radio buttons
> > checkbox for the case, if there is one match in autocompletion
> >
> >
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> >
> > Classification of the features above:
> >
> > The whole Addressing section in preferences is related to the
> > autocompletion.
> >
> > There are two types of preferences:
> > - one is stored in the prefs.js file in the ~/.mozilla/default
> > directory
> >
> > - the other is stored in an other java script file, which is stored
> > among the installed binary files (I'll call them hidden)
> >
> > Almost all the autocompletion related settings are stored in the hidden
> > preferences.
>
> I guess I don't understand the point of the hidden file. Why not store
> all preferences in prefs.js?
>
> > There are stored the following settings in the prefs.js file:
> > -autocompletion enabled
> > -csid (UTF-8)
>
> What's a csid?
>
> > -description of the LDAP server
> > -filename of the adressbook file
>
> For storing a local copy of the LDAP data?
>
> > -max. hits
> > -port number of LDAP server
> > -position of the addressbook in the adressbook list
>
> > -search base, ie. Server Root
> > -LDAP server name
> >
>
> > ********************************************************************
> >
> > I suggest to store the following extra preferences:
> >
> > - list of secondary ldap server in case of a not responding primary
> > LDAP server
>
> Is this necessary? I would assume that when an admin has multiple LDAP
> servers, they'd just have multiple DNS A records pointing the single
> server name to multiple IP addresses, which would be returned in a
> single array by gethostbyname().
>
> Dan
