[digiKam-users] Suggested UX improvement: Empty trash

[Gilles Caulier]

Thanks Thomas for your suggestions.

Please, for all tips, improvements, feedback, please use bugzilla
instead of a mailing list. Bugzilla is safe in time, nothing lost. All
files are public with the complete history and we can assign tasks
easily to future students.

For all code contributions, we use the gitlab PR mechanism now, which
is very easy to use and very powerful to review code and integrate.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 3 juil. 2020 à 09:22, Thomas D <sdktda at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Wow. That is definitely confusing.
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> May I suggest that the Undo button be removed from Trash and then only show the Restore button there. Instead have the Undo action available via Edit menu (like most common applications) and have the Undo action be available in the entire application via shortcut Ctrl+Z (like most common applications).
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> Hope you will consider this.
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> PS. I am aware that I have posted a several suggestions for improvements to the user experience the last few days.
> I am not a C++ programmer at a level at which I can contribute directly to the digikam codebase with patches, etc. However, I do think I can help quite a bit improving the UI/UX.
> I hope you take this as a well-intentioned help to improve digikam as a product.
> I think digikam is an awesome product. And as an amateur photographer, I love that it is available. I have used digikam for at least12 years and I love it.
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> Den fre. 3. jul. 2020 kl. 05.55 skrev Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>:
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>> The "Undo" function restore the last deletion process, regardless of whether
>> you last deleted 1 or thousands of files. Another "Undo" the next deletion
>> process, etc. The "Restore" function only affects the files selected in the
>> list view. You can see the number of entries in the trash in the status bar at
>> the bottom left or if you have activated the item counter for the album view.
>> No further changes to the trash are currently planned .. it's just a trash...
>>
>> Maik
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>> Am Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2020, 16:33:13 CEST schrieb 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.
>> >
>> >
>> > [image: image.png]
>> >
>> >
>> > 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-dt
>> > > rash-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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