https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465033
Bug ID: 465033
Summary: Improve UX of Trash by making action semantics more
clear
Classification: Applications
Product: digikam
Version: 7.9.0
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Albums-Trash
Assignee: digikam-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: thoma...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The Trash/Wastebin has proven to be rather confusing for several users
according to reports on the users mailing list.
It is safe to assume that the amount of users affected by this is much larger
than the number of users actually reporting this to the users list due to the
fact that most users do not engage in neither user mailing lists or bug
tracking systems.
First problem is that many users have a hard time figuring out how to empty the
trash bin.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the buttons wordings are ambiguous.
For example, when I mark everything and click Delete..., a popup menu sasys
"Selected Items permanently" and "All items permanently".
Also, there is both an Undo button and a Restore button.
It is also ambiguous if the buttons at the bottom of the Trash are actions
related to what ever item/items are selected or to the Trash bin as a while?
I read through the documentation, and while I value the excellent documentation
for Digikam, I think that from a user experience perspective the user should
not really have to consult the documentation for such a mundane task as to
empty trash. Especially since there is already an established defacto pattern
for hos much of this stuff works in other applications (Right click Trash -->
Empty trash)
>From the documentation:
Undo: to restore only the last entry in the trash-bin.
Restore¨: to restore selection of files from the trash-bin.
Delete: to remove permanently the items selection or all items from the
trash-bin.
I propose a low effort improvements:
1: The buttons should at least have these specifications listed in the "mouse
hover hint". I don't know what the right term for this is, but what I mean is
that if the user hovers the buttons with the mouse, there should be a quick
help text shown.
2: Right clicking on Trash icon in the tree view should show a context menu
with the "Empty trash" option.
3: The wording of the Trash buttons should be changed to confirm with the
defacto standard of other applications and operating systems. That is, there
should be a button that says Empty trash which will simply delete all items in
the trash.
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