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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KMessageBox::Dangerous considered harmful ;)
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-04-07 8:54:59
Message-ID: 200804071055.00367.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 07 April 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 06 April 2008, David Faure wrote:
> > I agree with Stefan: having to confirm the confirmation box by clicking on
> > a non-default button is too much.
> 
> this largely depends on whether or not the action was caused by purposeful 
> user interaction or not.
> 
> if the user does the following:
> 
> * select some files
> * right click
> * select "Delete files" from the menu
> 
> and then the dialog pops up, then they probably don't strictly need the 
> protection.
> 
> however, if a dialog pops up automatically from some internal programmatic 
> event, activating the "go ahead, destroy my data" button is a Bad, Bad 
> Idea(tm)
> 
> in between there is a bit of a grey area: does hitting "ctrl+enter" constitute 
> enough of a "the user meant it!" buffer to not require the use of the button.
> 
> really what we need is not getting rid of Dangerous, but really augmenting it 
> with "Automatically Generated and Dangerous".

OK, this makes sense.
It also means that you agree that the file-deletion-confirmation dialog doesn't need
to be set to Dangerous. I'll change that one. Thanks.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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