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Bug 756083 - "Keep" should be default on closing drafts
"Keep" should be default on closing drafts
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: geary
Classification: Other
Component: composer
0.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Geary Maintainers
Geary Maintainers
Depends on: 795219
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-10-05 15:42 UTC by Johny Why
Modified: 2021-07-05 13:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Johny Why 2015-10-05 15:42:15 UTC
Saving, by default, is pretty much a universal in other software. Why would devs expect "discard" would be the likely action on closing a draft? Not for me. 

thx
Comment 1 Johny Why 2015-10-05 15:42:48 UTC
PS, i just donated $10 to Geary. thx!
Comment 2 Federico Bruni 2017-12-19 23:00:51 UTC
Geary offers two buttons: "Discard and Close" and "Save and Close".
So you can choose easily what you prefer.
If you don't choose and close the draft (accidentally or not), IMO the current default - asking the user which action to perform - is the best solution.

So I disagree with you: I would not autosave any closed draft without asking. You may end up with cluttering the draft folder with some drafts you never wanted to save. This happened frequently to me with mobile email clients which have such a option by default. I find it much more annoying than a dialog asking a quick question.
Comment 3 Johny Why 2017-12-20 00:07:06 UTC
You're giving me CLICK-ITIS disease. 

Please stop making me click more things. .

CLICK 
CLICK 
CLICK 
CLICK 

Driving me crazy. 

Allow me to worry about the extra drafts. 

FOLLOW CONVENTION!

If you insist, make it an option in settings:

"On closing a draft:
- auto save in account Drafts folder 
- auto save in Local Drafts folder
- Ask me every time.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-07-05 13:27:46 UTC
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