Warning dialogs: Use less indirect text and only display file names
In our warning dialogs about files, we currently use an indirect style where we basically say:
Are you sure you want to do a thing to this item?
[file path]
We can improve the presentation by being more direct and moving the file path into the sentence. And because the full file path in the sentence would be quite cumbersome, we can shorten it to just the file name, This is fine because the user typically either already knows or doesn't care about the full path; they use the file name to identify which file is being operated on. And nearly all of the time, it's the file they were just interacting directly with anyway.
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