Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:03 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
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>> On 3/26/20 9:51 AM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
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>> >> 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.
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>> > Well, Daves patch doesn't cover 2 out of 3 cases, that's a start :)
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> 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.
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>> > I'm certainly not against making the information better, I'm just not
>> > sure that's the best way.
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>> We could move it to the bottom of the pages. Or add it to this page[1]
>> and call it a day.
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> Either would largely guarantee that users don't see it.
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> 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.

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