GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 740268
System tab - very ambiguous about what is being removed
Last modified: 2014-12-02 10:39:44 UTC
Created attachment 290865 [details] Scary dialog Attaching a screenshot of the tracker preferences/System dialog as found in rawhide tracker-1.2.4-3.fc22 There is a button that says "Yes, remove all of my indexed data". And there is a "helpful" text about "All data indexed will be removed! It cannot be retrieved!" I really hope tracker isn't about to remove all of my indexed data, but perhaps means to tell me its going to remove the indexes themselves. Its scary and confusing.
(In reply to comment #0) > Created an attachment (id=290865) [details] > Scary dialog > > Attaching a screenshot of the tracker preferences/System dialog as found in > rawhide tracker-1.2.4-3.fc22 > There is a button that says "Yes, remove all of my indexed data". And there is > a "helpful" text about "All data indexed will be removed! It cannot be > retrieved!" > > I really hope tracker isn't about to remove all of my indexed data, but perhaps > means to tell me its going to remove the indexes themselves. Its scary and > confusing. I think you're right, I hadn't thought of it like this before. Would you be interested in patching the dialog? It should be a really quick and easy fix. If you can't patch, a wording suggestion from a user like yourself would be appreciated! :)
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report. commit f3396b83315f0da5e6687ac4ac10cadb0b65b6fc Author: Martyn Russell <martyn@lanedo.com> Date: Tue Dec 2 10:38:19 2014 +0000 tracker-preferences: Make data reset clearer to users https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740268