Bug 290352

Summary:	Undo (Ctrl+Z) confirmation window
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	ultr <ultr>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, phd
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description ultr 2012-01-01 23:17:04 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

In Dolphin/Konqueror or at desktop folder view, when user presses Ctrl+Z after renaming/moving/etc. files, it would be nice to display a confirmation window with list of changes that will be unmade.

It is also important, because user can press Ctrl+Z by accident and even not realize it, but new filenames and changes will be lost.

There could be a list of recent changes, each with a checkbox, so that user can choose which operations should be unmade.
But at least a list of operations and a button Yes/No for confirmation is really needed here.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
show Undo confirmation window

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 21:26:10 UTC

I'm afraid I don't think this makes sense. Typically the undo metaphor is used *in place of* confirmation dialogs, because they are annoying and people tend to click through them without reading. A dialog to confirm your undo action seems like it would be the worst of all worlds lol

Comment 2 phd 2020-09-29 21:44:16 UTC

It would be nice to have a Plasma notification for this though.
Saying what has been undone and allowing a re-do.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-09-29 22:04:16 UTC

For what? Everything? That would be really annoying. A subset? Then it would feel random. Maybe it could be deletion-only/destructive things. But that would be a feature request for Dolphin (and any other file manager app that wanted to do this); it couldn't be done globally.

Comment 4 phd 2020-09-30 17:22:12 UTC

> destructive things

Accidentally undoing rename and especially move can also be destructive.

Undoing rename loses the new name.

Undoing move places files back in the source dir, which might be then deleted by the user, which is a common scenario: cheery pick files from source dir, move to target dir, accidental undo here, delete source dir.
Even undoing the cherry pick is already destructive because it might have been a lot of work to select the right files for moving.
The worst thing is: the user may not even notice until much later, when the damage can be irreversible.

> deletion

When an undo results in deletion, this shows a delete confirmation dialog already, I think.

> But that would be a feature request for Dolphin
> (and any other file manager app that wanted to do this);
> it couldn't be done globally.

As in the original report:
"Dolphin/Konqueror or at desktop folder view"