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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] fix bug 43417
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-26 21:56:14
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On Monday 26 August 2002 23:24, Carsten Burghardt wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ingo Klöcker" <kloecker@kde.org>
> To: <kmail@kde.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 10:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bug 43417
>
> > On Monday 26 August 2002 22:37, Carsten Burghardt wrote:
> > > this patch reloads the folderlisting when kmail gets an error
> > > that the folder doesn't exist anymore.
> > >
> > > +     i18n("The folder %1 was obviously deleted on the server, do
> > > you want to remove it?")
> >
> > That's a pretty confusing message. How could you remove an already
> > deleted folder?
>
> Remove it from your folderlist?

I understood more or less what this message is about. But the average 
user (and the translators) won't understand it. What about this
"The folder %1 was deleted on the server. Do you want to remove it 
locally?"
or
"The folder %1 was deleted on the server. Do you want to remove it from 
the list of folders?"

> > What happens when the user doesn't remove the folder? Will it still
> > be present in the folder list? Does it make sense not to remove the
> > folder? Maybe it will make sense when all messages are cached
> > locally, i.e. in KDE 3.2, but currently I don't see a reason for
> > keeping a non-existant folder.
>
> This message has two reasons:
> - to inform the user what happened / will happen

This is o.k.. But in this case a simple KMessageBox::information() would 
suffice.

> - to make sure we don´t delete a folder that is still needed

And this is what I don't understand. What should a folder which doesn't 
exist anymore on the server be still needed for? And even if it's still 
needed ... it's gone. The only reason would be to keep the properties 
of this folder if it has only been deleted/moved temporarily.

Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not against showing this question and 
giving the user the opportunity to decide himself what should happen. I 
only think that the current message isn't very clear and should be 
reworded.

Regards,
Ingo

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