GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 617683
Too easy to delete activities
Last modified: 2010-05-05 07:24:59 UTC
I have lost important data in Hamster after inadvertantly clicking the minus sign. There should be a feature that asks you something like "are you sure you want to delete this activity?". It is really NOT clear that this button with a "-" sign is made to delete activities. Also, is there a way to recover deleted activities?
I think we should get rid of [+] and [-]. These were meant for managing simple lists of items where items are well defined and never lost (think having a list of available columns to display and adding them to the list of selected columns). We should use proper icons for creating new items (new document?) and deleting (the trashcan).
Mezimezim - did you check the logs afterfwards? When deleting activities in preferences you don't delete them from the log. And the easiest way to recover them is to create new activity with same name. Although we do get this same bug report every now and then it has not been so often, so i think what we have here is just an accidental representation by minority. Thus i'm marking this as notabug due to mistaking the consequences.
sorry, i thought we are talking preferences. marking as dupe of bug 553940 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 553940 ***
(In reply to comment #1) > I think we should get rid of [+] and [-]. These were meant for managing simple > lists of items where items are well defined and never lost (think having a list > of available columns to display and adding them to the list of selected > columns). > > We should use proper icons for creating new items (new document?) and deleting > (the trashcan). I totally agree with using the trashcan icon! I would not have pressed it!
So, is there any way I can recover this data, it included several hours dating all the was back to last March, and it was important to me ($$)?
Are we really talking about same thing - about the "-" button in the overview? Because to delete records that way, you would have to spend at least a good hour.