[Tickets #1846] "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
 Updated By         | ekendall at brandeis.edu
 Summary            | "Personal Information" options screen pathological behavior
 Queue              | Horde Base
 Version            | 3.0.4
 State              | Assigned
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | Horde Developers
+New Attachment     | identity.patch
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ekendall at brandeis.edu (2005-04-26 06:08) wrote:

I understand the issue a little better now than I did when I first filed
the bug. The "None" option is so that you can change just your default
identity without making any preference changes, but it's still a very
confusing interface.

This patch removes the "None" option, adds a button just for changing
the default identity, makes the "which identity to change" select field
have the user's default identity selected, and (the really hard part)
pre-fills all the fields with the appropriate values from the default
identity.

I have no illusions that the patch is suitable to be committed as it
stands. It uses overly generic messages to avoid having to have new
text translated, and the trick I used to get Javascript into the body's
onload attribute is a serious hack. I would welcome any suggestions as
to how to proceed from here.