[digiKam-users] Suggested UX improvement: Empty trash

[Thomas D]

Another UX problem with Trash:
When opening the trash it has three action buttons:
- Undo
- Restore
- Delete

Apparently, Undo and Restore does the same thing? Or at least I
havent figured out what the difference is.
There are no pop-up hints to explain the difference. If these buttons
really do the same thing, there should be only one button.


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Another confusing thing: Right-clicking an image in the Trash offers no
Richt click menu. I would expect a menu to occur with options: "Restore"
and "Delete permanently". This follows what most modern OS do in their
desktop interface.


One more thing: Trash offers no "file size" column. Nor does it show a
total size of elements in Trash. Why not? These are extremely valuable
information and something the user wants to know most of the time. It could
be shown in the Status bar.




Den tir. 30. jun. 2020 kl. 18.09 skrev Dougie Nisbet <dougie at katsura.uk>:

> I found this a mild irritation when I first started using digiKam (
> http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digiKam-users-Changing-location-of-dtrash-directory-td4709691.html
> ) as I have scripts that parse my image directory and as far as I can tell,
> it's not possible to relocate the .dtrash directory. I get round it by
> using a wrapper script that does an rm -rf /store/media/images/.dtrash
> before starting digiKam and it never seems to do any harm.
>
> Dougie
>
> On 30/06/2020 15:59, Thomas D wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> Currently, it takes 4 clicks to empty Trash:
> 1. Find and click Trash in folder tree
> 2. Find and click Delete button on the opposite side of the screen(!)
> 3. Now a pop-up action menu is shown, click Delete all here. (Why not
> "Empty Trash"?)
> 4. You are now prompted "Are you sure you want to delete ALL items
> permanently?" (Oh no! Sounds scary - again, why not just say "Empty Trash"?
> which is a well established metafor on many systems). Click Yes to empty
> trash.
>
>
> The workflow can be improved by making the following possible:
>
> 1. Right click on Trash
> 2. Select Empty Trash
>
> This is both much simpler and less confusing for the user. And it is fewer
> clicks and much less cognitive load.
>
> Hope you will implement this.
>
> BR
> Thomas
>
>
>
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