Confirmation for deletion of files in Dolphin settings also affects Gwenview

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On Thursday 13 June 2013 16:56:20 Frank Reininghaus 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.

I agree.
> 
> 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.

This could work, but does not sound like a behavior the user would expect.

> (b) Restore the possibility to configure the confirmations in
> Gwenview's settings dialog.

My memory may be tricking me, but I don't it has ever been possible to 
configure confirmation of file operations in Gwenview. I would personally 
prefer a way to split the settings so that they are not shared anymore. I 
believe this is what users expect.

Aurélien