Forwarding bugzilla discussion to the list. This issue here is
whether we should move items to the Trash, even if they have been
explicitly put into other user-defined collections by the user. This
is in the context of a user who has decided to "Delete a collection
and the items in it."
I'm worried it will be too complicated to explain that we'll only
delete the ones that aren't also in another user-defined collection.
(e.g. in addition to the Dashboard, an item could also have been
automatically picked up by the In and/or Out collections).
In these situations, my inclination would be to follow what we say
we're going to do to a T - and then let the user fish items out of
the Trash if they want to. Or, they can always select all the items
in the collection and de-select the few they don't want to delete and
then delete the rest. In other words, there are ways around this issue?
I don't think we can assume that items that have been explicitly
added to another user-defined collection shouldn't be moved to the
Trash.
Maybe it would help if we think about specific use cases of when this
might happen:
a. I create a collection to pull together stuff just for my vacation.
When my vacation gets cancelled, I want to delete the collection AND
the events and tasks I already put in there.
b. I subscribe to a shared Home collection and it falls into disuse
and I want to get rid of it and its items.
What about others?
Either way, I think collection deletion will be quite rare. How often
do you delete folders from your email app and/or calendars from your
calendar app?
Mimi
Begin forwarded message:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: January 30, 2007 7:49:56 PM PST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Bug 7944] Deleting collections and items should move
items to the trash
http://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7944
------- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2007-01-30 19:49
PST -------
Subject: Re: Deleting collections and items should move items to
the trash
That should have read "isn't in any collections besides the
Dashboard".
Do you really think all items in the collection should go to the
trash,
even if some of the items have been added to other collections? That
seems wrong to me.
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