<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 23:50, Samuel Greenfeld <<a href="mailto:greenfeld@laptop.org">greenfeld@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br> >> In Sugar's Journal, the per-entry "Erase" menu choice does not ask for<br> >> any confirmation prior to deleting an object.<br> >><br> >> This presents the risk of accidentally deleting something, especially<br> >> since the "View Details" menu choice is immediately above it<br> >><br> >> I searched <a href="http://bugs.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">bugs.sugarlabs.org</a> looking to see if anyone had ever<br> >> suggested verifying the erasure/deleting of a Journal entry prior to<br> >> doing so, but could not find any obvious tickets on the subject.<br> >><br> >> Does anyone know if this is by design?<br> ><br> > I don't really remember, adding Eben and Christian to CC in case they do.<br> <br> </div>I don't remember either. We really should be asking to confirm,<br> especially for user-generated data. But if and when someone digs into<br> that code, it would be great to finally address the issue of selecting<br> multiple objects. Deleting one item at a time, even without the<br> additional step of a confirmation, is tedious.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. I think the expectation there was that a confirmation dialog would appear in a strip beneath the toolbar, with "Cancel" and "Erase" buttons.</div> <div><br></div><div>I also agree with Walter regarding the need for multiple selection support; we had some nice mockups with checkboxes that enabled single-click (without modifier) selection of sets of objects to take action on.</div> <div><br></div><div>Eben</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <br> -walter<br> <br> -walter<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> > Cheers,<br> ><br> > Tomeu<br> ><br> >> ---<br> >> SJG<br> >> _______________________________________________<br> >> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> >> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> >><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Sugar-devel mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> ><br> <br> <br> <br> </div></div><font color="#888888">--<br> Walter Bender<br> Sugar Labs<br> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br> </font></blockquote></div><br>