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

[Simon Schampijer]

On 08/20/2012 11:21 PM, Manuel Quiñones wrote:
> 2012/8/19 Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>:
>> 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.
>
> "This will erase the object..." can also work, but I think "This will
> erase the entry..." works better.
>
>> About the alert for the duplication. I am not 100% convinced it is needed.
>
> +1 to not add an alert in duplication too.
>
>> 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:)?
>
> What about a message "duplicating entry..." that dissapears in a few
> seconds?  Yes, is an alert :) but without Accept/Cancel buttons.

Yes, I thought about that as well, actually. In the ListView I think 
feedback is great, in the DetailView not so much, so the alert would be 
only in the DetailView?

Simon