Confirmation for deletion of files in Dolphin settings also affects Gwenview

[Michael Mikowski]

Here are my preferred solutions in order, with no regard to difficulty.  Note that I use KDE as my only desktop, averaging perhaps 8 hours per day, and I do a lot of image manipulation.

1. Merge gwenview and dolphin.  There already is enormous overlap, and just deciding which to use when interacting with image files is confusing.  These days I trend to prefer dolphin, but then switch to gwenview when needed.

2. Separate the two settings, so when using gwenview, for example, I can confirm deletes and do the opposite in dolphin.

3. Provide the setting in both apps, and note that it is a global setting in both apps (this would lead to confusing behavior and possible race conditions, through).

I hope you find this helpful!

Frank Reininghaus <frank78ac at googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>Burkhard recently made me aware of the following forum discussion:
>
>http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=213&t=110440
>
>Some users have noticed that Gwenview does not ask for confirmation
>when deleting a file if that confirmation is disabled in Dolphin. When
>having a closer look at the issue, this is not really surprising
>because Dolphin writes that setting to the global config kiorc, and
>both applications use KIO to delete files, which respects that
>setting.
>
>However, this is not really a user-friendly solution and might even
>lead to data loss if a user who does not find any way to
>enable/disable confirmations in Gwenview assumes that it will always
>ask before really deleting the file. Moreover, it appears that earlier
>versions of Gwenview did offer to enable such a confirmation.
>
>I think that we might want to
>
>(a) Add a warning in Dolphin's settings dialog that the "Trash" and
>"Delete" confirmations, unlike the "Close window with multiple tabs"
>one, affects *all* KDE applications. One possibility would be to add
>the text "Please note that this setting affects all KDE applications"
>to the text next to the two checkboxes. Input from Burkhard would be
>appreciated here because he works a lot with texts in the GUI and the
>docs and might have better ideas how this could be solved.
>
>(b) Restore the possibility to configure the confirmations in
>Gwenview's settings dialog.
>
>Comments and ideas are welcome.
>
>Regards,
>Frank