[KDE Usability] Review Request: Add a confirmation window when emptying the trash

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Quinta-feira 1. Abril 2010, às 00.09.41, David Faure escreveu:
> Short of reading the user's mind, we have no way of knowing if the user is 
> deleting a big file (or empty the trash) in order to free some disk space
> or  "just because".
> 
> So then we would need two actions, a "empty trash with undo enabled" and a 
> "empty trash immediately"? I definitely do not believe that this would
> improve  usability at all (talk about too many options...)

Agreed.

If we don't know what's best, asking the user is not the way to go.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/04/26/120193.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/01/54734.aspx

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