[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KMessageBox::Dangerous considered harmful ;)
From:       "Tomaz Canabrava" <tumaix () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-04-07 1:34:05
Message-ID: 7ebbb4b50804061834m48d34c08h28f2f77daf09961f () mail ! gmail ! com
[Download RAW message or body]

I Agree with both.
If something wrong came up (like deleting a bunch of your pictures
from the college time on the pajama-party), you can (or, you should ;)
) undo it by hitting ctrl+z or stuff..

On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:57 PM, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sunday 06 April 2008, Stefan Monov wrote:
> > Hi.
> > The KMessageBox::Dangerous flag makes a message box set its default \
> > button to the "safer" one, for example to Cancel rather than Delete. \
> > The idea is that asking for confirmation is not enough of a protection, \
> > so the user should also be shielded from pressing Enter accidentally.
> > Me, I never pressed Enter accidentally, but I've always appreciated the
> > ability to do Shift+Del Enter. i.e. finger2+finger4 finger3. It's easy \
> > yet safe.
> > 
> > So I put forth my suggestion: let us deprecate KMessageBox::Dangerous \
> > and rid the main modules of it.
> > 
> > aseigo, you added the feature some years back (commit 232842), so I'd \
> > love to hear from you especially ;)
> 
> As I wrote in bug 156438:
> 
> " Aaron intended that Cancel is default for dangerous actions (r232842).
> " However Waldo reverted that later on, making the "dangerous" flag \
> ignored (r263203); no reason given in the log message, but IIRC the \
> change of habits was too big, too many people were used to hitting Return \
> to confirm message boxes. This is why "Delete" was still the default in \
> KDE3. " Then the code was ported to KDE4 and the "dangerous" flag was \
> honoured again (I guess without knowing that the KDE3 code didn't honour \
> it). " So at this point we need a decision on the issue....
> 
> 
> I agree with Stefan: having to confirm the confirmation box by clicking \
> on a non-default button is too much. 
> 
> --
> David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
> Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice \
> (http://www.koffice.org). 



-- 
Um Computador sem Windows é como um Navio sem dançarinas de Can-Can


[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]