Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 143755
offer to recover in progress messages chooses the wrong default behavior
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:57 EST
Description of problem: When Evolution has crashed or been forcefully killed, when it comes back it offers to recover in progress messages -- "Do you want to recover unfinished messages?" In previous versions of Evolution, the automatically selected button, i.e., default choice, _used_ to be "Recover". It is now "Don't Recover". I think this violates the rule of least surprise, and puts the destructive choice as the default. * Caveat - I went from Evo on FC1 to FC3, so it may be my own fault in missing the transition, but the new button behavior is surprising to me. * Although I haven't tested it, I presume that if messages are not recovered, they are gone and unretrievable. I'm positive that eventually I will lose messages either by unthinkably accepting the default, or having a click or keystroke "Enter" intended for another application get intercepted and vaporize my messages. Not sure if this is a bug or an RFE. :) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evolution-2.0.2-3 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. With new, unsent messages in compose mode, crash Evolution (i.e., "kill -9 [PID]") 2. Start Evolution again 3. Notice that the default button selected is "Don't Recover" Actual results: Destructive default is chosen. Expected results: Non-destructive default is chosen.
Want to register my agreement. The default should be Recover.
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The distribution against which this bug was reported is no longer supported, could you please reproduce this with the updated version of the currently supported distribution (Fedora Core 6, or Fedora 7, or Rawhide)? If this issue turns out to still be reproducible, please let us know in this bug report. If after a month's time we have not heard back from you, we will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Setting status to NEEDINFO, and awaiting information from the reporter. Thanks in advance.
No idea when the changed occured, but in recent versions of Evolution in Fedora, the default behavior/choice is now the correct one (recover).
Wonderfull. Closing this bug as CANTFIX, because I don't know when it was already fixed.