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Bug 521533 - the Recent Documents menu should not have a confirmation dialog box when the user ask for deleting entries
the Recent Documents menu should not have a confirmation dialog box when the...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 494753
Product: gnome-menus
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.21.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-menus dummy account
gnome-menus dummy account
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-03-10 10:08 UTC by antistress
Modified: 2008-04-12 00:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.21/2.22


Description antistress 2008-03-10 10:08:28 UTC 
The Recent Documents menu (since GNOME 2.20 thanks to GtkRecentAction) shows a confirmation dialog box when the user ask for deleting entries, 
whereas there should be an Undo functionnality or maybe nothing (since no files are deleted, only shortcuts. Warnings should be reserved to important actions. User will not read warnings anymore if there is too much of them in the Desktop).

See also :

Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo (Aza Raskin)
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning

Other information:
Comment 1 antistress 2008-03-10 10:10:53 UTC 
Related bug (but not duplicate) : 
Bug 167501 – Nautilus should have a universal Undo command
"Everything in a usable environment should be easily undoable to allow user
exploration of the system. Ideally every command in the desktop should be
undoable, but enabling Undo in Nautilus would be a good place to start.

Having a universally available Undo command allows to get ridden of confirmation
"Are you sure?" dialogs. This speeds workflow up, increases the user confidence
in the interface, and is really useful when the user makes a mistake (no more "I
removed the whole Documents folder with just a click on OK")."
Comment 2 antistress 2008-03-10 10:22:06 UTC 
For instance, with Firefox 2, when clicking in History menu "delete recently closed tabs, there is no confirmation dialog box
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2008-04-12 00:24:45 UTC 
You already filed the bug :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 494753 ***
Comment 4 antistress 2008-04-12 00:40:42 UTC 
ooops sorry