Rewriting the warning when detaching/aborting/resetting

[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

[Ageless]

For more information, see this BOINC forums thread.

[Nicolas]

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

[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. :-)

[Ageless]

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."

[Nicolas]

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

[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 :)}

[romw]

Kind of late for the 6.6 milestone, punting to the 6.8 milestone.

[romw]

To late for 6.8, wouldn't give the localizers enough time.