(In reply to Josiah Bruner [:JosiahOne] from comment #82) > So this seems like a fine approach to me. I think that we should call each > folder "folder(x)" instead of "folder-x", as it more clearly indicates > duplicates though. People may already have folders called Name-Subname or > the like, so another reason to use parenthesis. +1 The "(x)" pattern is well known from file managers, so why differ here? There is already another mechanism using the "-x" pattern e.g. in case of lost synchronisation via IMAP where panacea.dat resolves the redirection. Using the same pattern for different reasons could raise ambiguity problems.
> I also definitely think we should expand this to other folders, not just > trash. (In reply to :aceman from comment #84) > But I think I could make that dialog with Yes/Cancel options meaning > Rename/Cancel. For Trash, the rename would happen without question. (In reply to Josiah Bruner [:JosiahOne] from comment #85) > Yeah, for trash moving automatically is fine. I think, the decision if a dialogue is shown should not be upon destination folder Trash, but upon the involved action: Delete action -> automatically rename to Folder(x) Move/Copy action -> ask user for renaming or cancel Reasons: - If user uses Move/Copy instead of the easier Delete he may have some special reason e.g. using the Trash as temporary location, so user should be warned as for any other Move/Copy. - If we later extend with merge functionality, user is guaranteed to have the merge functionality even for Trash when using the Move/Copy actions. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/214366 Title: Can't delete a folder if Trash already contains a folder of the same name Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: In Progress Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird 1. Create a new folder, eg. "Temp" 2. Delete it, OK 3. Create the same folder again 4. Delete it, OK I expect it to be moved to my Trash folder, perhaps with a suffix appended (it being the second instance of that folder in the trash). Thunderbird popped up an error message. On an imap host: The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Mailbox already exists. In the local folders: A folder with that name already exists. Please enter a different name (!) Workarounds: 1. Empty the trash 2. Rename the folder before deletion 3. Rename the folder already in the trash 4. Delete (permanently) the folder that is already in the trash Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy thunderbird 2.0.0.12+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10.0 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/214366/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
