Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:44 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
> The downloading of thread mailboxes, and the viewing of raw messages.
> It was in my first response :)
>
>
> >> > 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.
>
> We could put it just to the right of the download link though? There
> seems to be enough space for that with a large margin at least on
> desktops.
>

We could. I was hoping for a way to avoid putting it on every row -
obviously technically we can do that, but it might look weird.

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