On 2013-09-16 09:31:19, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On 09/16/2013 09:18 AM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: >> On 2013-09-16 02:06:52, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> The idea of having GUI-based configuration is in the TODO file, but not >> explicitely stated in a bug report here, so I guess I'll leave this open >> here - but basically the functionality is here, not just the preferences >> pane (which is what I assume you would like). > > hm, if i'm going to wish for specific ponies, I'd like a few things: > > * sure, i'd like the non-local-MTA to be selected in the preferences pane.
Will be done.
> * i'd like it to not silently fail if it tries to use
> /usr/sbin/sendmail and that path doesn't exist. (i don't consider
> writing to stderr to be sufficiently noisy for a gui program) -- maybe
> if it can't find sendmail, it could open the preferences pane and
> encourage configuration of the settings
Of course. In general, error handling in the GUI is absolutely
abysmal. Exceptions are not handled *at all*, even those that are
supposed to be user-targeted (GpgRuntimeError).
> * i'd like it to use thunderbird's autoconf to pre-populate the mail
> server settings if the user has no local MTA
That I have no clue how it works, so I will accept a patch but will not
implement this on my own as I don't use thunderbird (or rarely) and
certainly not the autoconf stuff.
Cheers,
A.
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