[Sugar-devel] [Design] Deleting Activity directory when deleting Activity bundle

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Wed Aug 18 16:52:35 EDT 2010


On 30 July 2010 13:41, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
> A 'Confirm erase' alert dialog appears that asks if you want to permanently
> erase the Activity (bundle). It provides a negative 'Keep' and positive
> 'Erase' button.
> For the proposed patch, to prevent the unwitting loss of Activity profile
> data or other content that may be stored in the Activity directory, an
> option checkbox should be added, such as, (check) erase all associated data,
> which could default to yes (checked).

I disagree with the addition of a checkbox - in my experience, this
kind of complexity will result in a random response from the user.

I agree with the idea of deleting profile data when an activity is
uninstalled. (if they want the profile data, why uninstall the
activity?)

Daniel


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