[mythtv] Proposed alternate behaviour for show delete

Brad Templeton brad+mydev at templetons.com
Wed Mar 9 19:10:30 UTC 2005


On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:05:45PM -0500, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 March 2005 01:22 am, Brad Templeton wrote:
> > Result: Delete can be undone, at least until the space is actually
> > needed.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> 
> Doesn't make sense at all to me.  If I manually delete something (which rarely 
> happens), I want it gone.  You can't accidently delete a program due to the 
> extra 'are you sure' popup, unless you don't bother reading the screen.

That's certainly not true.   Unlike you, I delete regularly as I am sure
do many others, once I have watched a program I know I don't intend to watch
again.   Autoexpire is actually a very rare event for me -- and was on the
Tivo except for suggestions which are of course constantly autoexpiring there.


Because of that, the are-you-sure pop-up becomes close to meaningless.
It becomes the normal operation at end of program to, barely aware of what
your fingers are doing, delete and confirm.

"Are you sure" prompts are well known in UI design to be a poor idea unless
they truly only happen for rare events.   Undo is far better.


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