Tickets :: Comment on [#1846] "Personal Information" options screen pathological behavior

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Comment	> By default, the "Personal Information" options screen selects "None" > as the identity being changed. I'm not sure why "None" is even an > option, since you can't view or set preferences using it, but the > larger problem is that it's not obvious that you need to change the > selection. To a casual viewer, it looks like you can just enter your > preferences and press "Save Options," and in fact if you do that you > get a "Your options have been updated" success message when in > reality the settings you entered have been silently discarded. > > > > Ideally, the "None" option should be removed and the user's default > identity made the initial selection. Unfortunately, I've been unable > to create a patch to that effect because while it's trivial to change > which HTML option is initially selected, the option fields are filled > by Javascript that's only triggered by the "onchange" attribute of > the select. > > > > Failing that, the "None" option should be called something like > "Please select an identity" or "---" and the "Save Options" button > disabled until a different identity is selected, or at the very > least, change the "Your options have been updated" message.
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