GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 749943
Geary Does Not Ask to Save, Nor Autosave, Drafts Before Closing
Last modified: 2016-12-20 14:19:24 UTC
- I'm in compose mode, not popped out. - I receive a received-message alert. - i click 'open' on the alert. - geary asks me "do you want to close the draft message?" - first of all, WHAT? i'm not allowed to have a draft open and read another message at the same time? I understand, that's because of the way you implemented the interface-- requesting: please enable draft message to just stay there, in draft mode, if i open a new message. If it can even stay in edit-mode, great! if you have to save and close it, fine. - which brings us to the bug: - geary asks me "do you want to close the draft message, in order to read the new message you just tried to open?" - i click 'close the draft'. - geary does NOT automatically save my draft. geary does not ask me 'close and discard, or close and save?' Geary just closes it. - i just lost a bunch of work. Now i have to do my work all over again. Thanks, geary :( - i believe asking people if they want to save something before they close it (or automatically saving it if you don't ask) is what people expect. And it's what should happen. - Moreover, if you autosave drafts (so that's the third request in this post-- please auto-save drafts while editing), then this never would have happened. i guess that's a dupe of #714074. Count me as +1 on that. - now i must go-- i have a lost email to re-create. I STILL LOVE GEARY :)
i know this is marked bug-- i consider not autosaving, or asking user to save, a draft before closing it is a bug. Not a programming bug-- a ux bug. oh yeah-- request: please let me keep a draft in edit mode when switching to another message. thx!
sorry for many posts. Ask me, or autosave, either is better than losing work. The only high-priority item in my posts on this issue is not saving before closing the draft. Others are nice to have's. thx!
(but i prefer autosave on drafts) THX!
The long-term goal is to remove this dialog completely and have inline composers automatically instantiated for draft messages. See bug #730486 and bug #743066.
This is separate, but probably related, to bug #747627 - that's about the Save & Close button not actually working. This is about Save not even being presented as an option (and autosave not working).
I think this should have indeed been fixed by Bug 747627, so I'm closing this as a duplicate. If that's not the case, please feel free to re-open this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 747627 ***