88776 - Confusing text when deleting folder under Local Folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

If you try to delete a folder under Local Folders you get:
"Are you sure you want to move the selected folder into the Trash."

This is really bad, since the user didn't ask to move the folder but to delete 
it. I know it's the samebut to the user it's not very clear.

We should be asking something like:
"Are you sure you want to delete the "test" folder and move it to the "Trash" 
folder?"

20010730

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

The text you suggested would be wrong, because the folder is not deleted until
you empty the trash.

Also, there's a pref to turn this alert off (although I think the existance of
that pref is silly. Let's have a default and stick with it IMHO.)

Not sure why we want to edit this wording at all -- it's not confusing if what
we want to alert the user about is indeed the move.

Therefore I suggest WONTFIX.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

This alert should not exist at all.

The whole point of the Trash existing in the first place is to provide a method 
of deleting items which does *not* require dealing with an annoying 
confirmation alert for every deletion. You move items to the Trash, and later 
you empty the Trash. In between those two events, you have the opportunity of 
restoring items from the Trash to their original position, which is much nicer 
than having to make a permanent decision about deletion when you first move the 
item to the Trash.

Comment 3

[timeless]

mpt's suggestion sounds reasonable to me, however it doesn't agree w/ windows. 
The current text seems to pretty much match the windows dialog.

For now, i'd suggest that the pref default to matching the os pref.

If microsoft ui designers at some point feel a warning about trashing files is 
unnecessary then we'd get the feature for free.

Comment 4

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

This bug is being marked EXPIRED as it has seen no activity in a very long time.

If you think that the issue reported might still be relevant, please test with a recent release of SeaMonkey and if the problem persists feel free to re-open the report. Thank you.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bulk reopening incorrectly expired bugs - no activity does not constitute no bug - these need proper checking.

Comment 6

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

Using this build:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:2.0.2pre) Gecko/20110519 Firefox/4.0.2pre SeaMonkey/2.1.1pre

the question wording has changed to:

Are you sure you want to delete the folder '%S'?

so I'd say this bug can be closed.