Closed
Bug 287301
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
mail compose autosave should imply save without asking on compose window close
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 307046
People
(Reporter: tuukka.tolvanen, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319 Firefox/1.0+ Build Identifier: version 1.0+ (20050313) When the mail compose autosave pref is set, a redundant confirmation dialog pops up when closing the mail compose window, unless the current message version has been saved (explicitly or automatically) as a draft. By way of parody, the appropriate wording for the dialog should be: "The message you have been typing has been saved automatically every n minutes so you don't lose any changes to it. Would you like to lose the changes from the last n-m minutes?" :) The mail compose autosave pref should imply save without asking on compose window close. The choice given in the dialog is not useful, since it is between a) "Save": Leave the currently visible version of the message in Drafts. b) "Don't Save": Leave an unknown version (the user has no idea when exactly the autosave happened) of the message in Drafts. c) "Cancel": Continue editing. Choice (a) makes sense, (b) is useless, (c) is obviated by (a) since re-opening the draft provides undo for the compose window close action. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In options / composition, set the Auto Save every n minutes pref. 2. Compose new message, type some words in. 3. Close mail compose window. Actual Results: "Save Message" dialog asking if message should be saved to Drafts. Expected Results: Should save message to Drafts without asking.
This bug exists because auto-save implementation is flawed - in the ideal case the "Dont save" option is useful - we expect when this is clicked the auto-saved draft should be deleted. See this thread for more on this - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=313069 (In reply to comment #0) > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319 Firefox/1.0+ > Build Identifier: version 1.0+ (20050313) > > When the mail compose autosave pref is set, a redundant confirmation dialog pops > up when closing the mail compose window, unless the current message version has > been saved (explicitly or automatically) as a draft. By way of parody, the > appropriate wording for the dialog should be: "The message you have been typing > has been saved automatically every n minutes so you don't lose any changes to > it. Would you like to lose the changes from the last n-m minutes?" :) > > The mail compose autosave pref should imply save without asking on compose > window close. The choice given in the dialog is not useful, since it is between > a) "Save": Leave the currently visible version of the message in Drafts. > b) "Don't Save": Leave an unknown version (the user has no idea when exactly > the autosave happened) of the message in Drafts. > c) "Cancel": Continue editing. > > Choice (a) makes sense, (b) is useless, (c) is obviated by (a) since re-opening > the draft provides undo for the compose window close action. > > Reproducible: Always > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. In options / composition, set the Auto Save every n minutes pref. > 2. Compose new message, type some words in. > 3. Close mail compose window. > > Actual Results: > "Save Message" dialog asking if message should be saved to Drafts. > > Expected Results: > Should save message to Drafts without asking.
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Comment 2•19 years ago
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Please quote as little as possible, and only if it's necessary in order to see what you're referring to. Usually, as in the case of comment 1 here, not at all. > the "Dont save" option is useful - we expect when this is clicked the auto-saved > draft should be deleted. That doesn't appear to be the way the feature is designed atm, and as such is irrelevant here; if you think it should work that way, file an rfe with rationale. The other points at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=313069 are also orthogonal to this bug.
(In reply to comment #2) I am sorry for the indiscriminating quoting, but I clicked on reply and it came by default - should have removed it before posting. Anyway, the original post claimed the dialog is redundant. My point was to say it is not, from a final intent (it may be redundant in the current implementation, but that implementation should change). I could perfectly well prefer to auto-save my messages so I dont lose them due to crashes, but I dont want to save a message that I deliberately cancel and choose dont-save. Just because I auto-saved it does not mean I need to delete it from drafts manually everytime composition is cancelled - this would also be consistent with current behaviour where dont-save option does not leave anything in Drafts. So this bug actually depends on the other bug being fixed or not - http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=313069 Or am I missing something here?
Updated•17 years ago
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QA Contact: message-compose
Updated•17 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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