Bug 270105 - Panel should ask you to confirm before removing panel or panel widgets
Summary: Panel should ask you to confirm before removing panel or panel widgets
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: widget-quicklaunch (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Unlisted Binaries Linux
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Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2011-04-04 22:53 UTC by elbarto
Modified: 2018-06-08 20:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description elbarto 2011-04-04 22:53:35 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

It's incredibly frustrating when I've put 12 icons on my quicklaunch and go to remove a launcher icon, only to accidentally click on "Remove this QuickLaunch" instead, instantly removing the entire QuickLaunch widget along with all of my configuration for it.  There needs to be a popup confirm box on delete to prevent loss of data due to accidental mis-clicks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Right click on a panel widget.
Select "Remove this ____"


Actual Results:  
The widget is immediately deleted.

Expected Results:  
There should be a confirm box.
Comment 1 Sebastian Kügler 2011-09-29 12:13:57 UTC
First, this is the wrong way to fix it. Why should this confirmation only go for a specific widget? This introduces inconsistence in the UI that leads to more data loss (the next time a user deletes a widget, she'll expect there to be a confirmation, and there won't).

Adding a modal dialog is a no-go as well, it blocks the UI and causes general nastiness.

The correct solution against data loss bugs is not to add confirmation dialogs, but to make the action less destructive, for example by adding a way to undo the delete.

(From https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102727/ )
Comment 2 Shantanu Tushar 2011-09-29 13:24:11 UTC
And just fyi, in reference to the bug title, Panels have a confirmation when you remove them.
Comment 3 Adam Porter 2012-03-03 22:03:35 UTC
This is another dupe of Bug 175270.
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:07:49 UTC
Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham