Your message dated Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:26:14 +0100
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and subject line Re: Default exit dialog
has caused the Debian Bug report #120869,
regarding aptitude: unnecessary quit-confirmation
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.6.1-1.1
Severity: wishlist
When pressing q to quit Aptitude, a dialog pops up, confirming the
user's action. The dialog has two options, Yes and No, with No being the
default (pre-selected option).
This is not necessary. I would suggest removing the dialog altogether.
The user has already pressed q and thus wants to quit.
At least make Yes the default. It's easy to just start aptitude again if
you mistakenly quit, and there should be no permanent information loss
if you quit by mistake. Besides, as many UI studies have shown, these
kinds of "mistake-prevention-attempts" result in automatic behaviour
among users -- they soon learn the sequence q-left arrow-enter, and
this automatism defeats the intended (?) purpose of the quit dialog. Or
it annoys users (yes, that's why I noticed it :) ).
I wish the quit-confirmation dialog would be removed. :)
Thanks,
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Fabian Fagerholm <[email protected]>
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070908-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
2015-09-08 19:12 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Almost 14 years later after the original maintainer and developer said
this, I think that it's far too late to change the behaviour now. There
have not been any requests in the last few years. So realistically, we
are not going to implement this any time soon.
If one wants to get rid of the dialog altogether, there is the
possibility to set "Aptitude::UI::Prompt-On-Exit" to "False" in the
configuration, so it doesn't even ask for confirmation when pressing
'q'.
So marking it as +wontfix, so it doesn't show all of the time in the
list of bugs that are real candidates to fix.
Closing now.
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Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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