88777 - Inconsistent in giving the warning when deleting folder under Local Folders

Status: NEW

(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."

But if you delete a folder under Trash under Local Folders you are not asked.

This is inconsistent. Please show the warning all the times when deleting 
folder.

20010730

Comment 1

[Håkan Waara]

It's not inconsistent, it's logical.

We only alert when we are about to move the folder. If you hit delete when a
folder is inside the Trash, we will delete it from the trash. It's a feature.

The process of removing a folder looks like this:

* User hits delete
-- If alert pref is set (it is by default), ask.
-- Move the folder if the user decided to do that.

Now, the folder is inside the trash.

* User selects "Empty trash" through a contextmenu or menu
-- Delete everything inside the trash

* User selects a folder inside the trash
-- Delete the folder right away

Suggesting WONTFIX for this one as well.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Well, I just argued in bug 88776 that the alert when you move a folder outside 
the Trash to the Trash should not exist. If that was fixed, then the 
inconsistency complained about in this bug would go away.

You shouldn't have to go through four separate steps (hit delete for folder 
outside Trash, choose OK, hit delete for the same folder inside the Trash, 
choose OK) to delete a folder. Two steps is quite enough.

Comment 3

[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 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

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

Comment 5

[RickieES aka Ricardo Palomares]

Confirmed that deleting a folder in Trash folder does not launch a confirmation message using:

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

Confirming this does not imply that the bug report should be fixed (I basically agree with comment #1), just that the described behaviour still happens.