[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 114508] Confusing dialog about discarding recovery data can lead to data loss

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114508

--- Comment #6 from Telesto <telesto at surfxs.nl> ---
(In reply to Dan Dascalescu from comment #5)
> Comment on attachment 138679 [details]
> Recovery dialog with two Calc documents
> 
> @Heiko's attachment: yes, I expect Discard to discard only the selected
> item, because it's selected.
> 
> A quick fix to the confusion would be to disable selection.
> 
> Another one would be to rename "Discard" to "Discard all" if more than one
> document was recovered.

Seems the simplest solution, to me. If there a change for the button labels,
please consider a change for 'Start' to something more self-explaining too,
like "Recover documents" or " Recover all".  

I can think of one situation where individual recovery could be useful, but
it's a corner case. For example when a document file generates a crash loop on
opening after recovery, which makes it impossible to recovery the other files.
But that is more about the the way how the recovery process is implemented, and
less about the dialog itself (and I'm not sure about the likelihood to create a
situation like that)

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