From kde-panel-devel Sat Oct 25 12:53:28 2008 From: "Hans Chen" Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:53:28 +0000 To: kde-panel-devel Subject: Panel and activity removal - confirmation versus undo Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-panel-devel&m=122493924913059 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0244903890==" --===============0244903890== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_4305_29192713.1224939208070" ------=_Part_4305_29192713.1224939208070 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, After reading this post I thought a little bit about how accidents such as this one could be avoided. "Just now I hovered the yellow thing to the right of the clock, right clicked it and selected "remove this panel". Great, now I have lost my entire bottom bar, when all I wanted to do was rid myself of this useless button..." The confirm dialog prevents users from accidentally removing panels and activities. But there are also many users who want to experiment with Plasma and/or confirm the removal because they thought something else was going to be removed. Seeing your whole customized panel disappear isn't very pleasant. My suggestion is as follows: 1. Get rid of the confirmation dialog 2. Show a fade out animation when a panel or activity is removed 3. A "box" appears in the place of the panel/activity, displaying something like The panel has been removed. [OK] [Undo] This would allow users to get back their panel, regardless of why it was removed. It will also make them feel relieved if it was a mistake instead of leaving them thinking "wtf?". At least, that's what I believe. The box will disappear if you click [OK], but I don't know if it's a good idea to hide them after a set time. In the case of Activities, maybe the boxes can disappear once you zoom in again. Your thoughts? With best regard, Hans Chen ------=_Part_4305_29192713.1224939208070 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,

After reading this post I thought a little bit about how accidents such as this one could be avoided.
"Just now I hovered the yellow thing to the right of the clock, right clicked it and selected "remove this panel". Great, now I have lost my entire bottom bar, when all I wanted to do was rid myself of this useless button..."

The confirm dialog prevents users from accidentally removing panels and activities. But there are also many users who want to experiment with Plasma and/or confirm the removal because they thought something else was going to be removed. Seeing your whole customized panel disappear isn't very pleasant.

My suggestion is as follows:
1. Get rid of the confirmation dialog
2. Show a fade out animation when a panel or activity is removed
3. A "box" appears in the place of the panel/activity, displaying something like

The panel has been removed.
[OK] [Undo]

This would allow users to get back their panel, regardless of why it was removed. It will also make them feel relieved if it was a mistake instead of leaving them thinking "wtf?". At least, that's what I believe.
The box will disappear if you click [OK], but I don't know if it's a good idea to hide them after a set time. In the case of Activities, maybe the boxes can disappear once you zoom in again.

Your thoughts?

With best regard,
Hans Chen

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