[horde] Two Really Dumb Questions About Horde 5.2.1 Portal Blocks

[Andy Dorman]

After almost 18 months of poking and prodding the latest Horde Groupware 
Webmail on a dev server in preparation for upgrading our ancient H3/I4 
production service, we have finally upgraded our production service to 
the latest debian Horde packages (H 5.2.1 / I 6.2.2).

Our heartfelt thanks go out to all the Horde developers and the members 
of this mailing list for your work and sharing of your expertise.

And now as our users start to hit us with questions, we are discovering 
all the little things we never thought to test or try out on the dev 
server. ;-)  We would desperately appreciate it if anyone has an answer 
to the following questions or a suggestion for a work-around:

1. How do you configure Horde to switch immediately to Imp after login? 
  I have set Horde's prefs.local.php with

$_prefs['initial_application']['value'] = 'imp';

But all that seems to do is pre-select Imp in the user's Horde Display 
Preferences->Display Options->What application should FanMailPlus 
display after login?

And even after imp is selected for a user, after logging out and back in 
the portal display still starts up instead of Imp.  I am sure I have 
just missed something in Horde's config or prefs, but so far I have not 
found it.

FWIW, the work around we have done is to define a nice default portal 
block layout with Mail and Newest Unseen Messages on top in the first 
column.  So it is obvious to a new user coming from the old system 
(which started Imp after login) how to get to their email.

2. Once you use "+ Add Content" and define a new Horde portal block, how 
do you get rid of it when you change your mind and decide you do not 
want that block?  I bet I have missed a setting somewhere that disables 
deleting of blocks, but I have not yet found it.  ;-)

Once I find some answers for my dumb questions I will edit the wiki to 
pass these answers along to all the other Horde administrators.

Thanks again,

-- 
Andy Dorman