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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
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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).
> 



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