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A native Haiku IRC client that is feature filled, fast, lightweight, and stable.
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Simplify authentication for password login #43

Open Vidrep opened 5 years ago

Vidrep commented 5 years ago

Currently, Vision requires the user to navigate a couple of windows and a right click to arrive at the username and authentication field for password protected logins. If not for humdinger providing a screenshot to illustrate, I might not have found the correct process. This could be simplified. Freenode IRC chat client has a small checkbox and fillable fields which make it very obvious (see attached screenshot). untitled

KapiX commented 5 years ago

+1. I couldn't find it either. At least "Change servers..." window can be removed, and column view with servers listed placed directly in "Network details" box. Additionally I don't see how "password" is server-specific setting instead of network-specific.

pulkomandy commented 5 years ago

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 09:55:15AM -0700, Kacper Kasper wrote:

+1. I couldn't find it either. At least "Change servers..." window can be removed, and column view with servers listed placed directly in "Network details" box. Additionally I don't see how "password" is server-specific setting instead of network-specific.

In freenode case, the password is forwarded to NickServ so it is network global. But the password may be used differently for others servers and networks. This is a weakness of IRC: the protocol is simple, but the way it's used varies a lot from one server to another.

I think the server password is so rarely used for its intended purpose (private access servers, restricted only to those who know the password) that it's fine to make it a global setting, however.