281583 - Compose 'Save Message' "Message has not been sent" dialog box - poor User Interface

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Gregory P. Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041201 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Thunderbird/1.0

When cancelling a message that is being composed (decided not to send, etc) by
closing the window up pops a dialog box titled 'Save Message' with the text
"Message has not been sent.  Do you want to save the message in the Drafts
folder?" following by *three* buttons:

"Don't Save"                               "Cancel"   "Save"

with the first one on the right hand side and the other two on the left.  This
is horribly unusable for several reasons.

(a) The buttons are not grouped together so are not obviously all part of one
choice and are difficult to  mouse between.

(b) No dialog box should ever have more than two options.  I'm cancelling
sending this message, but if I click the cancel button it takes me back to the
compose window (dialog cancelled).  The "Cancel" function is unnecessary and if
anything should just -be- the "Don't Save" function.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. compose a message
2. close the compose window
3. get freaked out by the horribly designed dialog box

Actual Results:  
distress, bugreport filed.

Expected Results:  
calm blue ocean

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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