[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11863: Trashed items interfere with page/post slug generation

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#11863: Trashed items interfere with page/post slug generation
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:  nacin                  
     Type:  defect (bug)       |      Status:  accepted               
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  3.0                    
Component:  Trash              |     Version:  2.9                    
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:  needs-patch ux-feedback
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Changes (by mikeschinkel):

 * cc: mikeschinkel@… (added)


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:38 miqrogroove]:
 > I think it's the "newer post gets changed" bit that will confuse
 everyone.  In Windows you have to make that change manually or it wont let
 you restore the item.  The only option it provides is to delete the
 "newer" item.  In WordPress lingo, that means trashing the "newer post"
 while restoring the old one.  Then there is no conflict.

 +1. This is the most straightforward UX.  What's in trash has been
 trashed. What's not trashed is live and working on the website. If trash
 is being restored it makes sense that trash should have to adjust, not
 what has been live and minding it's own business.

 Replying to [comment:39 johnonolan]:
 > The most relevant piece of information that we have is that the user
 wants to restore a post, everything else should revolve around the
 expectation of what will happen when a button labelled "restore" is
 clicked.

 Agreed.

 > For the record: Windows really isn't a great benchmark when it comes to
 user experience - and just because it's most common, doesn't mean it's
 best. Take Internet Explorer for example.

 I'll say that while I know Windows has had a tremendous amount of
 professional UX people do usability studies on Windows, probably more than
 on any other software ever, whether it's the "best" or not isn't what's
 important. Take "Jacob's Law"[1]; what's important is what the most people
 are used to and expect, even if it were not the "best."

 If "best" were most important then your laptop wouldn't have a qwerty
 keyboard.

 [1] http://socialcomputingjournal.com/viewlisting.cfm?id=84

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