Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:03 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org>
wrote:

> On 3/26/20 9:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >
> >> I don't see how any of the above, including Dave's patch, make things
> >> worse. Again I was just suggesting on how to display the credentials,
> >> not adding more steps to downloading the mbox.
> >
> > Well, Daves patch doesn't cover 2 out of 3 cases, that's a start :)
>

I'm not clear what cases you're referring to, even after re-reading the
thread.

> > And it makes it worse in that it goes in the very most "valuable
> > space" on the screen, for something that's focused on a tiny portion
> > of our users.
> >
> > I'm certainly not against making the information better, I'm just not
> > sure that's the best way.
>
> We could move it to the bottom of the pages. Or add it to this page[1]
> and call it a day.
>

Either would largely guarantee that users don't see it.

I was going to suggest putting a help icon with popup hint on click next to
the table header for the column, but then I noticed we don't actually have
column headers.

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