Heinrich Mueller posted on Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:27:02 +0200 as excerpted: > Am 03.09.2011 00:15, schrieb Duncan: >> @ HM: Could an option be added to make deleting posts throw up a >> confirmation dialog? Obviously, some may wish to turn it off, thus the >> option, but most GUIs have a confirmation on delete by default, and I >> believe pan could use it to. Meanwhile, it's likely worth the trouble >> to "delete the delete" hotkey associated with that function. In the >> articles menu, hover over the delete function (preferably on a post you >> don't mind losing just in case) and hit the delete key. That /should/ >> delete the hotkey, so you'll have to use the menu to delete posts. >> Alternatively, consider assigning a more complicated combo, >> shift-ctrl-delete or the like. (Be careful not to trigger >> ctrl-alt-delete which is often a shutdown hotkey.) > Yes, sure, but I as a linux user (smile) am ALWAYS sure if i want to > delete something lol. (sarcasm end) > I'll put it on my to-do list.
Well, being sure I want to delete /something/, and being sure I'm deleting the /right/ something, due to a mistaken belief on which window has the focus, are (unfortunately) two *VERY* different things. FWIW, tho, I personally seriously dislike the trash most GUIs seem to have these days. In fact, I often keep the confirmation dialog on move to trash only since I so often mean DELETE when I hit it. But I do keep a confirmation dialog on delete most of the time too (for the GUI, not so much at the command line, where tab-completion serves the same purpose). Hmm... That's a new thought, to me anyway. From this point of view, a GUI's delete confirmation dialog (and move/copy/cancel dialog for those ops) is simply a (poor) substitute for the missing tab-completion, to ensure that you're actually doing the operation you intend to do, where you intend to do it. Anyway, I see the follow-up saying it's already done. The speed at which you implement suggestions has been a repeating source of amazement to me, and this is no exception. Thanks! =:^) (Thinking about which, it's about time for me to pull and build updates once again, including to pan, as I've not updated in a few days. I generally try to do it twice a week or so, and getting more than 10 days out means they start stacking up and it's harder to trace any problems that might occur to a specific update. FWIWI, this'll be my first kernel git pull since the news of the cracked kernel.org servers hit.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
