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

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

+1

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

+1

(I presume the concern was over whether or not an update would remove
the profile data.)
>
> Daniel
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