Hi Mimi, > Ahhh-hhaaaa...this is covered by a different workflow. Most likely, the > Warriors schedule was imported/subscribed to as a Not-Mind collection, > in which case, the contents are always deleted and moved to the Trash, > except for items that have been added to other collections. > > That is why there is no dialog asking you if you want to 'Delete just > the collection' or 'Delete the collection + it's items'...when deleting > Not-Mine collections.
I'm not sure mine vs. not-mine is really the axis that deletion behavior is likely to split on. How about this scenario: I've got a choir collection, it's a mine collection. It's got concerts, rehearsals, and choir social events. Suppose (heaven forbid) I decide I need a break from so many darn rehearsal, so I'm not going to sing the rest of the season. I add a few of the concerts to my personal collection (I still want to hear my friends sing, even if I'm not performing). Then I delete the collection. I suppose, in the current design, I could make the collection not-mine before deleting it, but I think only those with powerful Chandler mojo would know to do this. I'll admit there's definitely some single- vs. multi-user difference here. I'm having trouble thinking of cases where, as a solitary user, I'd really mind if items appearing in multiple collections didn't go to the trash when I delete one collection. If an item was special enough that I added it to a different collection, I don't want it going away accidentally. However, since I know I'm not our target user, I tried to think more about multi-user situations. When I think of, say, having a vacation collection I'm going on with a friend, and my friend shares their tasklist with me, I can well imagine adding a few vacation tasks to that friend's collection. In that case maybe I do want to delete the task for the friend when I delete the collection. I think there are really two different questions we want answered when a collection is deleted (maybe they can be combined into one dialog, but I'll put them separately for clarity): 1. "This is a mine collection, so its items appear in the Dashboard. Leave these items in the Dashboard after deleting this collection?" 2. "Some of the items in this collection appear in other user-collections. Do you want to trash all items in this collection, regardless of their membership in other collections?" As it happens, I have a hard time imagining a situation where I'd ever answer yes to 1., but in multi-user situations I can imagine situations where I want 2. Sincerely, Jeffrey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Design" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/design
