[dev] Confirmation page for monthly maintenance operations

[Jon Parise]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:38:21PM -0600, Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> > > > If you are able to select in your prefs what actions
> > > > should take place monthly the screen should reflect these
> > > > settings. If for example you only selected to move sent
> > > > mail to the monthly sent-mail folders, the
> > > > "after-login-screen" should have this option selected and
> > > > the other ones deselected.
> 
> Actually, the behavior now is that the actions only appear IF
> the user has selected the action to occur in the preferences
> (or if the sysadmin has it set, etc.).  Thus, in Jan's example
> above, the only thing that would appear on the screen would be
> the dialog to move your sent-mail folder.  This option would be
> checked.  The other 2 options would not appear on the screen at
> all.  (Maybe I was confusing people a bit with my screenshot.
> For the screenshot, ALL of the maintenace operations have been
> selected in the preferences - I wanted a screenshot that would
> show the maximum functionality of the patch.)
 
I think the best approach would be:

Display all of the possible options on the maintance screen that
the administrator hasn't explicityly disabled (i.e. locked
preferences).  The checkboxes will default to the user's setting
for that preference, so if the administrator sets a default of
on for an option, and the user hasn't turned it off in their own
preferences, then that option will be checked.

That will fall in line with the way the preference system
currently works, allowing maximum flexibility.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member