panel item remove confirmation

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Fabian Nowak wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 16.10.2005, 23:47 -0700 schrieb Brian J. Tarricone:
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>>Jasper,
>>
>>I'd strongly suggest putting back the "Are you sure?" dialog when
>>removing a plugin.  In the past week I've removed plugins accidentally
>>several times by missing the Properties item and hitting Remove by accident.
> 
> 
> the point is that you will also click on the ok button in this dialog if
> you accidentally clicked onto "remove panel", just because of being used
> to this dialog.

That's certainly your opinion, but I don't think so.  If I click
something by accident, I usually realise it instantly as I click on it.
 Without the dialog, it's too late; with the dialog, I can cancel my
mistaken action.

> this is what happened already several times to me and
> AFAIK jasper, too.
> having the dialog removed already prevented me two times from removing
> the panel accidentaly as the dialog comes unexpected and therefor i read
> it.

This really doesn't make sense to me.  It sounds like you're just being
too hasty.

> but restoring one's old panel is much more work than restoring a simple
> plugin, since sensors-plugin is configured in 15-30 seconds and even the
> mailwatch-plugin is so straight forward that you won't probably take
> more than 2 minutes for 4 accounts, at least that's what it took me.

Um, and you think 2 minutes is an acceptable amount of time to recover
from a clear dataloss scenario?  I don't.  And two minutes is pretty
optimistic, especially if you want to set multiple IMAP new mail folders
on multiple accounts, as is the case with me.

> what about having a panel option "show remove confirmation on plugin
> removal" which might be enabled by default, thus enabling me and perhaps
> many others to not have this dialog.

Do you *really* add and remove plugins from the panel so often that a
dialog is that annoying?  If so, I'm sure you're in the small minority.
 A pref here is bloat.  IMO the dialog should come back and there should
be no pref for it.

Perhaps someone with some actual HCI design credentials would like to
weigh in on this issue (Erik, I'm looking at you).

	-brian

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