Konqueror delete unification

[Malte Starostik]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 16:28, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 14:46, Malte Starostik wrote:
> > ========================================================
> >
> > | Are you sure you want to delete the following files? |
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > | foo.jpeg                                             |
> > | bar.mp3                                              |
> > | blurb.txt                                            |
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > | [x] Keep the files in the trash can for recovery     |
> > | [ Delete ]                                [ Cancel ] |
> >
> > ========================================================
> >
> > Where the "Keep the..." (better naming please :-) option would be
> > remembered and default to true.
> > This combines both ways of deletion into one action without the need to
> > add any configuration options for it (shift-del could still be there for
> > power- users to init that checkbox to off).
> > An alternative would be no such check box but instead three buttons:
> > "Delete", "Move to trash", and "Cancel", but I'd expect that to look more
> > crowded and complex that a check box.
>
> This is nice, but you still do need some configuration options: if you
> tick the "don't ask me again box" (which is how this wd be implemented
> using the KMessageBox class), you have to have some way to change your
> mind later.

I didn't mean it to work as a "Don't ask me again" check box, but one that 
appears everytime, just preselected with what the user did last time.
I'm quite confident that there isn't a concensus about this, but IMHO deleting 
a file should always ask for confirmation.

[...]

> The original discussion was partly on kde-usability so take a look
> there.

Thanks, will do.

-Malte