[dolphin] [Bug 424723] UX improvement to avoid data-loss when pressing 'back' or 'up'.

[Tom]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424723

--- Comment #3 from Tom <tomz at freedommail.ch> ---
> Didn't you get a confirmation dialog to see that you were moving two items to the trashcan?

This UX bug is about a folder too many being selected, and while I agree that a
user **may** notice an extra item in the popup, this is not really relevant to
the bug report as that is at best a band-aid. Not a solution.
If you explicitly delete something, you won't read the whole dialog. I've
always found that dialog a 'cover-your-ass' dialog protecting the developers
while not providing any support to the vast majority of users.

> Items are not lost, they are in the trash which has to be manually emptied, it is not automatically emptied.

Unless you press shift-delete, which users learn because normal delete has
plenty of UX issues. For instance a new directory is created on a USB pen and
you can share those super private items you thought were gone anyway. Or (as
previously) items are copied from slow media.
The trashcan has a long list of UX issues, when they hit the "you need to empty
it" dialog more than once, they will learn to avoid it.

As the first commentor, this reply also hopes that a band-aid is enough, which
surprises me as I'm pretty sure that a developer that is familiar with this
code can fix it in 2 hours tops.

So maybe commenters can review the suggested solution and comment on how their
UX would improve (or not) should it be implemented.

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