After seeing the really cool UI for the Profile stuff (Create New Profile, Select Profile, etc) I'm think there should be a cool UI for the Create New Mail Account Wizard too! The current one, works ok, but compared to the Profile UI it looks lame!

Maybe Ben Goodger (ben@netscape.com) could do something cool here.

Reassigning to alecf for M16

absolutely. oohhhh beeeenn... BTW, the spec is at http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/accounts/index.html

oh no ahhhhhhhhh!!!! check in the new code and I'll whack the UI.

all checked in, just waiting for ya

M19 because I think this is a slightly higher priority than the bugs I just pushed to M20 ;)

Ben, isn't this done already or should we escalate this as a feature for beta 2?

I did this already. reassigning back to me and marking fixed.

The wizard still needs to be fully converted over to xul widgets and could use some other ui enhancements...I've been working on this, so I'm going to steal this (if you don't mind, alec...)

wow, that's awesome. Blake, if you end up rewriting wizardHandler/etc for this, can you rewrite it as nsWizardHandler.js and leave the old one in place? I believe we have some code in the commercial tree that's depending on wizardHandler.js/etc, and ben has already rewritten the widgetStateManager as nsWidgetStateManager.js.. thanks!

I like to help in testing, giving good idea's, etc...

actually, I did this a long time ago, the only thing that's missing is the icon.

alec, you did what a long time ago? most of the interface is still in xul; i also changed some other stuff to make it nicer

I made the new UI for the mail wizard - i.e. this bug was to make the mail wizard have the same style as the new profile wizard. The only thing that's missing is an icon in the upper left hand corner. I just realized I commented in this bug with the "That's really awesome" - what I meant was that you're converting it over to XUL widgets from HTML widgets...that's actually bug 35427. Do you want to take that one? Note that we have a UI spec on http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/specs/accounts/ that describes what the wizard should look like, the phrasing of sentences, etc. (except the header in the wizard, which I've changed to use the dark-blue-toolbar-style bar)

we need to decide what icon to use for the wizard so i can add it and mark this fixed.

I have a hard time seeing that this bug is fixed. The two dialogs, the "Create Profile" and "New Account Setup" doesn't look the same: - Large weird looking outer margin in "New Account Setup". - No bottom status line in "New Account Setup". Where it in Create Profile fx says "page 1 of 2". - Missing horizontal line above buttoms. - Text should be inside "square" not entire dialog inside "square" Will attach screen shot to show...

The dialogs don't have to be _exactly_ the same, but I'll look in to the changes you suggested. also, fwiw, the green borders that you see in each dialog is the result of using an HTML widget (in the case of the account wizard, html:iframe)...those won't be there once converted to xul widgets.

Henrik, that looks nice, but I'm doubtful that you did all the backend required for the XUL conversion. Does the wizard still function exactly the same (and remember the values if you navigate backwards and forwards)?

I've changed nuthing but the layout. The functionality is 110% the same...

Henrik, did you convert the two radio widgets in the first screen to <radiogroup> and <radio>'s yourself? And did you just change the XUL (not any underlying JS)? Please ensure that choosing, say, "Newsgroup Account", then pressing Next, then pressing Back will prefill "Newsgroup Account" again.

I've changed the dialog to use the radiogruop and added the statusline, and tweaked the UI. Everything works the way it used to... Including moving back and forth.

hmm...alec?

attach a patch, I'll test it, possibly check it in. :)

alec: how do the patches look to you? reassigning to henrik for now...as no one ever told me what icon needed to be added to the wizard, this bug has just been sitting in my list...

I dont like to have bugs assigned to me, since I dont have CVS checkin rights...:)

bug 54028 covers the last remaning issue here, so I'm just going to mark this fixed, and anyone who is interested in the icon issue, go see that bug.

Marking Verified on Branch WinNT 2000102008 Mac 2000102008 Linux 2000102009

Verified Fixed on Mozilla trunk builds linux 102308 RedHat 6.2 win32 102304 NT 4 mac 102312 Mac OS9 Setting bug to Verified and removing vtrunk keyword