[Bug 24868] Should be able to save an account without its password

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24868

Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2010-11-15 06:59:25 PST ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> There is also the case where the password is an empty string. I can't say if
> the problem is in the GUI side (Empathy) for this case.

Strictly speaking, yes this is Empathy's fault: Telepathy (and Mission Control)
can distinguish between "password is not provided" and "password is present and
is the empty string", but Empathy's account-editing UI doesn't.

I'm not sure how you'd do a sensible UI for this while allowing empty strings
as passwords, though: the best I can come up with is this:

    SIP address:  [bob at example.com___]

    [x] Provide a password
    Password:     [******____________]

which is still a bit rubbish.

> For example, my SIP
> registration doesn't use a password, but Empathy will not let me create an
> account with an empty password.

I think you're actually trying to not provide a password, rather than providing
the empty string :-)

In any case, telepathy-sofiasip does not mark the "password" parameter as
REQUIRED, so this looks like Empathy's fault too.

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