[Tickets #7123] Re: Can't turn on use_trash when no trash folder is set

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7123
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  Ticket             | 7123
  Updated By         | Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>
  Summary            | Can't turn on use_trash when no trash folder is set
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Assigned
  Priority           | 2. Medium
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Horde Developers, Michael Slusarz
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Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org> (2008-07-29 12:31) wrote:

This sort of works, but is pretty bad user experience in my opinion.  
For one thing it forces two steps to enable move to trash; for  
another, the process for enabling virtual trash now looks like this:

- enable move to trash
- be told you can't delete messages until you select a trash folder
- go back to delmove pref group
- select use virtual trash
- be told that you can't use both virtual trash and a regular trash  
folder at the same time
- go back to make sure virtual trash was set, and you can't see the  
option anymore because use_trash was automatically set to false.

vtrash is in fact enabled now, but I wouldn't expect a user to trust  
that. Why are we hiding these preferences in the first place? It seems  
clear enough to me that if use trash isn't selected a trash folder  
won't be shown. Barring rewriting the prefs UI to allow dynamic  
enabling/disabling of prefs, I think we should just show them.