panel item remove confirmation

[Pasi Orovuo]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 01:04:28PM +0200, Fabian Nowak wrote:
> Am Montag, den 17.10.2005, 01:54 -0700 schrieb Brian J. Tarricone:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> as above, yes when developing or improving or porting plugins.
> 

This is an argument that holds no value from the user's standpoint.

One thing regarding usability is, that the user interface should prevent
- or at least discourage - the user of making a mistake in the first
place. Differentiating the items more clearly would probably be the way
to go, but I can't think of a nice way of doing it. So, the confirmation
dialog would be acting as a sort of "wtf are you doing?" wakeup call for
most _users_ as - I'd guess - they are not adding and removing panel
items that often.

If a developer has difficulties coping with this, he probably just
should pay more attention on his actions, or just patch the panel for
himself. :)

-Pasi