Adium 1.4.3

[Joshua Lock]

On 26 June 2011 12:10, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
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> On Jun 26, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:
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>> On Jun 26, 2011, at 12:03:05, Robert Vehse wrote:
>>> Am 26.06.2011 um 20:59 schrieb Christopher Forsythe:
>>>> Is your end goal here to just inform users that something is going on, or what? That'll better help to pick the one to use.
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>>> Pretty much, yes. Isn't this a customary thing for migration processes?
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>> Does anything actually get changed in the saved settings? If so, then we should inform the user that we're going to make that change.
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> Chat transcript directory structure is migrated to the new service (necessary because the UIDs are formatted differently).  Also, the login prompt is new, because we now use Facebook's OAuth-style system rather than obtaining the username/password ourselves and supplying that to the webscraping system.
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>> If we're just changing a behind-the-scenes implementation detail, there's no reason to burden the user with that knowledge.
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> Overall, I feel like this is all behind-the-scenes, and the only part warranting consideration is how the user reacts to this new "enter your facebook username/password" web window that pops up on first connect. As I said before, though, it's a really standard appearing window that any Facebook user has seen a thousand times.


FWIW I agree with this sentiment and don't expect most users would
care but for those that do could you have some extra widgetry on the
login view with "Why am I seeing this?" and link to a wiki page that
explains what's going on.

2c from a lurker

Joshua