[Tickets #1846] NEW: "Personal Information" options screen pathological behavior

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=1846
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 Ticket             | 1846
 Created By         | ekendall at brandeis.edu
 Summary            | "Personal Information" options screen pathological behavior
 Queue              | Horde Base
 Version            | 3.0.4
 State              | Unconfirmed
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | 
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ekendall at brandeis.edu (2005-04-21 14:00) wrote:

By default, the "Personal Information" options screen selects "None" as the
identity being changed. I'm not sure why "None" is even an option, since you
can't view or set preferences using it, but the larger problem is that it's
not obvious that you need to change the selection. To a casual viewer, it
looks like you can just enter your preferences and press "Save Options," and
in fact if you do that you get a "Your options have been updated" success
message when in reality the settings you entered have been silently
discarded.

Ideally, the "None" option should be removed and the user's default identity
made the initial selection. Unfortunately, I've been unable to create a
patch to that effect because while it's trivial to change which HTML option
is initially selected, the option fields are filled by Javascript that's
only triggered by the "onchange" attribute of the select.

Failing that, the "None" option should be called something like "Please
select an identity" or "---" and the "Save Options" button disabled until a
different identity is selected, or at the very least, change the "Your
options have been updated" message.