User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060830 Firefox/1.5.0.7 (Debian-1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.7-2) When editing Identities, it is ridiculously simple to mistakenly delete an identity you've already setup. Without a 'Cancel' button, this is an irreversible one-click function, with somewhat dire circumstances. Either the Identities editor needs a 'cancel' function to undo changes, or the Delete button needs an 'Are you sure?' dialog. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go to Accounts->Manage Identities 2.Spend 10 minutes setting up a new identity 3.Instead of hittin [ok], the mouse gets jostled and you hit Delete instead. 4.Curse loudly. Actual Results: Identity is gone with no recourse. Expected Results: Prompted with "Are you sure you want to delete this identity?"
Confirming RFE.
Bwinton, are you OK with this? Mistakenly deleting and then recreating the identity may assign it a different id so existing messages referencing the old ID may now have a problem (like Drafts or Unsent). But for the user the identity will look the same (same address and other values) so he may not understand it.
Created attachment 638023 [details] [diff] [review] patch
Comment on attachment 638023 [details] [diff] [review] patch I think it's close, but not quite there. As you can see in http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2301433/Screenshots/DeleteWhat.png there's no indication of which identity was selected (and indeed, it wasn't the "blaketestwinton@gmail.com" identity, so the dialog was both incomplete and misleading ;). I suggest something like: +-------------------------------------------------+ | Deleting identity for blaketestwinton@gmail.com | | | | Are you sure you want to delete the identity | | test@test.test? | | [Cancel] [OK] | +-------------------------------------------------+ In general, people don't read dialogs, and so it would be way better if we could support an "Undo" here instead, but since I suspect that's much more work, I think going this way is the best we can do in the short term. So, ui-r-, so that I can see the new dialog wording, but other than that, it seems okay. Thanks, Blake.
(In reply to Blake Winton (:bwinton - Thunderbird UX) from comment #4) > +-------------------------------------------------+ > | Deleting identity for blaketestwinton@gmail.com | > | | > | Are you sure you want to delete the identity | > | test@test.test? | > | [Cancel] [OK] | > +-------------------------------------------------+ Let's use "Delete" instead of "OK" here. :)
Created attachment 643592 [details] [diff] [review] patch v2 Yes, undo would need more thought. Maybe in a new bug if somebody requests it. I fixed the strings and button as you both requested.
Comment on attachment 643592 [details] [diff] [review] patch v2 Looks good. ui-r=me! Thanks, Blake.
Comment on attachment 643592 [details] [diff] [review] patch v2 Review of attachment 643592 [details] [diff] [review]: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Looks good. r=me
Checked in: http://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/42234d57ebdc
As the originator of this bug almost 6 years ago, I'm ecstatic to see it resolved and committed. Thank you everyone who worked on it!
Hi, thanks for your reply! When you try a version of TB (17 and up) that has the bug fixed, please change the status to VERIFIED. Thanks.
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