[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Journal: confirmation before erasing/duplicating an entry

[Simon Schampijer]

Hi,

I have been working on the confirmation alert for the Journal, submitted 
a patch [1].

"Erasing an entry in the Journal does not ask for confirmation
before doing the erase. This patch adds an alert to the ListView
and the DetailView that asks for confirmation before doing the
erase. This is part of the touch interaction work [2]".

I think the need is clear, I just want to confirm the wording of the 
message and title.

About the alert for the duplication. I am not 100% convinced it is 
needed. There is not much harm in duplicating an entry (unless it is 
really big). I try to avoid confirmation alerts when possible. I think 
the only thing which is critical is feedback in that case. In the 
ListView the feedback is given. Duplicating an entry in the DetailView 
lacks a bit the feedback what has happened. Long term an animation would 
be nice here. Short term options that would help giving feedback here 
(please not an alert:)?

Regards,
    Simon

[1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2012-August/039080.html
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Touch/Development#Journal
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