Preview Remove, Delete and Trash Spec

For context 0.6 Trash and Deletion Spec

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Usage Patterns

When will users use Remove, Delete and Move to Trash?

• When Undoing a mistake: Oops, I did it again.
• When Processing / Triaging information: Keep versus Chuck.
• When Organizing / Re-Organizing information: When do I ever look at that?

End-user Language

• Remove an item from a collection
• Deleting an item
• Moving an item to the Trash

• Removing an item from the Trash
• Removing an item from the Trash to a specific collection

• Deleting a collection
• Deleting a collection and the items in it
• Moving a collection to the Trash

Nice to haves - Deferred to future

• Removing a collection from the sidebar, but not deleting it or the contents within it

Scenarios and Workflows

Remove items via DELETE key, App menu: Item>>Remove, Context menu: Item>>Remove

• Remove item from Dashboard: Pop-up 'Remove from Dashboard' dialog...
  • Removing 'Item Title' from the Dashboard will move it to the Trash.
  • [ ] Apply to all [Cancel] [Move to Trash]

• Remove item from User-defined collection: Item(s) is / are removed from that collection.

• Remove Single-Collection items from User-defined Not-Mine collection: Pop-up 'Only appearance of item' dialog...
  • 'Item Title' only appears in 'Collection Name'. Removing it will move it to the Trash.
  • [ ] Apply to all [Cancel] [Move to Trash]

• Remove from Trash: Deletes Item.

Deferred: Remove items from the Trash via Drag and Drop

• Remove from Trash via Drag and Drop out of the Collection to nowhere: Returns item(s) to all collections it used to be a member of.
• Remove from Trash via Dragging and Dropping into a specific collection: Returns item(s) just to the destination collection.

Delete items via Ctrl/Cmd-DELETE key, App menu: Item>>Delete, Context menu: Item>>Delete

• Delete always moves the item to the Trash, which means that all instances of the item are removed from all collections it was a member of.
• Delete in the Trash collection deletes the selected item(s) from the Trash collection.
• Both the App menu item: Collection>>Empty Trash and the Context menu item: Collection>>Empty Trash delete all items in the Trash collection.

Delete collections App menu: Collection>>Delete, Context menu: Collection>>Delete

• Out of the box collections cannot be deleted.
• User-defined Mine collections: Pop-up 'Delete Collection' dialog...
  • Do you want to delete: [Cancel] [Collection only] [Collection and Items]

Bug 7944

• User-defined Not-Mine collections where NONE of the items have also been added to other collections: Pop-up 'Delete Collection' - 1 dialog...
  • The items in 'Collection Name' only appear in this collection. Deleting 'Collection Name' will move its items to the Trash. [Cancel] [Delete Collection and Items]
• User-defined Not-Mine collections where SOME of the items have also been added to other collections: Pop-up 'Delete Collection' - 2 dialog...
  • Some of the items in 'Collection Name' only appear in this collection. Deleting 'Collection Name' will move those items to the Trash. [Cancel] [Delete Collection and Items]

-- MimiYin - 09 Apr 2007