[Psi-devel] Re: Privacy

[Jeroen Vaes]

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 16:20, Remko Troncon wrote:
> > To block a certain event, the user just clicks in te collumn next to the
> > contact of his choice, and a little icon appears. When an icon is
> > present, it means the event is blocked. when it it not, the event is
> > allowed.
>
> The problem is that you cannot map any privacy list onto this format.
> This wouldn't be a problem if Psi was the only client in the world, but
> other clients can make slightly different lists. And then you get into
> trouble.

I can't really come up with an example that can't be mapped to this format. 
Maybe it's not easy to implement, but not that it can't be done. The server 
has to parse different privacy lists too, this is quite the same thing.

> > I think a dialog like this is much more user-friendly as Psi does the
> > hard work for you, yet still is powerful enough.
>
> The dialog in itself, i don't think is a lot easier to use than what
> i proposed. The legend thing, and the 1 column for every type looks
> good though; i might integrate something like that to inline the rules in
> my proposition.

My dialog is far from perfect, but I still think it's the most easy way for a 
user to configure his privacy settings. The other dialogs are far more 
abstract than mine, a bit too abstract for regular users I'm afraid. This is 
basic functionality, it should be made as easy as possible.

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