52696 - Button tooltip should be context depending

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you select a mail and hold your mouse over the delete button it says:
"Delete selected message or folder"
so what should I expect happens when I press the delete button? Will it delete 
my folder?
The tooltip should say what the button actually does:
"Delete selected message"
if more than one selected:
"Delete selected messages"
etc...

Comment 1

[scottputterman]

yeah I know. It was a compromise to avoid some extra work and also not have it
say the wrong thing for some of the cases.  Now it say's the right thing, you're
just not sure which one it's referring to.

Comment 2

[Olga]

I changed QA contact from nbaca to olgam.

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090613 SeaMonkey/2.0b1pre - Build ID: 20090613000642

Works for me.

Now the text doesn't vary with context, but it says "Delete selected item" which applies to all contexts. No other button tooltiptext seems glaringly confusing to me either.

Comment 4

[Philip Chee]

Doesn't work for me.
<http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/search?string=Delete+selected+item&find=%5C.dtd%24&findi=%5C.dtd%24&filter=%5E%5B%5E%5C0%5D*%24&hitlimit=&tree=comm-central>
MXR indicates that the string "Delete selected item" only appears in the address book window.