Ticket #405 (new Enhancement)

Opened 8 months ago

Last modified 8 months ago

Rewriting the warning when detaching/aborting/resetting

Reported by: Ageless Assigned to: romw
Priority: Major Milestone: 6.0
Component: Manager Version:
Keywords: detaching aborting resetting warning Cc:

Description (Last modified by Ageless)

Can the warning message that shows up in BOINC Manager when a person is about to detach, be changed?

At this moment the warning is "Are you sure you want to detach from project 'project-name'?

I request for an inclusion in the warning that any work still being worked on/uploading/to be reported will be deleted when the person detaches.

So as an example:

"Please confirm that you want to detach from project 'project-name'.

Any tasks for this project that are waiting to run, running, suspended, uploading, or to be reported WILL be deleted."

Yes detach / No cancel

Change History

09/12/07 04:08:01 changed by Ageless

  • description changed.

09/12/07 04:12:04 changed by Ageless

  • priority changed from Minor to Major.

For more information, see this BOINC forums thread.

(follow-up: ↓ 4 ) 09/12/07 08:26:55 changed by Nicolas

  • keywords changed from boinc manager, detaching, warning message to detaching warning.

Keywords are separated with spaces! Trac doesn't care if you add commas in between, 'warning' is a keyword, 'message' is another.

(in reply to: ↑ 3 ; follow-up: ↓ 7 ) 09/12/07 10:58:54 changed by Ageless

Replying to Nicolas:

Keywords are separated with spaces! Trac doesn't care if you add commas in between, 'warning' is a keyword, 'message' is another.

Yes sir! A bit nicer wouldn't be bad. But consider me slapped.

Now for the rewriting of the title and adding to the request... hehehe. :-)

09/12/07 11:14:38 changed by Ageless

  • keywords changed from detaching warning to detaching aborting resetting warning.
  • summary changed from Rewriting the warning when detaching to Rewriting the warning when detaching/aborting/resetting.

Additional request for the warning messages when Resetting and Aborting individual tasks and/or uploading tasks.

* Resetting a project only shows "Are you sure you want to reset project 'project-name'?" other approach:

"Please confirm that you want to reset project 'project-name'. Any tasks for this project that are waiting to run, running, suspended, uploading, or to be reported WILL be deleted."

* Aborting an individual task now shows: "Are you sure you want to abort this task 'task-name'? (Progress: xx%, Status: its status)" other approach:

"Please confirm that you want to abort task 'task-name'. When aborting this task, it will be deleted from your system. You will not receive any credit for it."

* I don't have an example of an uploading abort handy, so I don't know what the original message says. But the approach would be the same as in Aborting the task:

"Please confirm that you want to abort the uploading of task 'task-name'. When aborting this upload, the task will be deleted from your system. You will not receive any credit for it."

09/18/07 21:28:35 changed by Nicolas

Another suggestion: Experienced BOINCers know clearly what happens when detaching. Add a "Don't show this message again" checkbox to the popup.

(in reply to: ↑ 4 ) 09/18/07 21:29:57 changed by Nicolas

Replying to Ageless:

Yes sir! A bit nicer wouldn't be bad. But consider me slapped.

I really didn't mean it in a rude way; but who knows what mood I was at the time... Anyway, I think Trac should do something like ordering tags alphabetically while you type them; that way people would surely understand how they work :)

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