Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 3:38 PM Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:03 PM Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.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
Inoticed 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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