Comments on: Annoying alert dialogs – Part 255k25

By: Tam Hanna

Tam Hanna — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:37:26 +0000

Hi,
mind giving us a screenshot?

Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: javispedro

javispedro — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:43:23 +0000

What I really dislike is the FileZ delete dialog:you select 40~50 files, then a dialog asks “Are you sure you want to delete 47 files?”. You’re likely to end deleting a whole folder you didn’t want to delete just because you missed clicking an item, and a file/folder count doesn’t help when there are just too many files.

A nice dialog which lets you review the files/folders you are going to delete is what’s needed here. Vista doesn’t have it. Gnome doesn’t have it. BeOS doesn’t have it. Only KDE has it.

By: Tam Hanna

Tam Hanna — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:10:27 +0000

Hi,
but why not just show the alert when a file didnt get deleted. This way, the user wouldnt get trained to click OK automatically…

Best regards
Tam Hanna

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:03:29 +0000

I agree with both Tam and someguy. The compromise is to have the option (somewhere) to never show the confirmation dialog if the operation is successful.

By: someguy

someguy — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:40:47 +0000

Actually, the “3 of 3 files deleted” message is quite logical. Quite often, a file or more can’t be deleted for some reason… and so the exception would be noted there.