On Nov 19, 2013 5:08 AM, "Julien Wajsberg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > - To clear the caller log, I have to go to the log -> edit -> select all > > -> delete -> do you really want to delete? yes. Is there a shortcut? > > Deleting the caller log seems like something that is performed often and > > that wouldn't require extra confirmation. Or at least could there be a > > general setting to have less things extra confirmed? > > Why do you want to delete it?
It is common for people to want to keep lists like this "clean". For some it is a desire to remove clutter. For others it's used as a to-do list. I'm sure there are plenty of other reasons too. We noticed this in a very real way when we temporarily removed the "clear all" button from the Firefox Desktop download manager. The button wasn't really needed from a technical point of view since we started backing the download history using a database which scaled just fine to huge download lists. However there was a ton of outrage over that there was no way to clear the whole history and that you needed to delete items one-by-one. So the button was put back. I think we've improved the experience even further since then by in most cases automatically hiding downloads more agressively (whenever you close a window I believe). This removes the clutter automatically in most cases. However we still making it possible to get to the full history through an explicit UI. But this full-history-UI still has a "clear all" button :) But we should definitely not undervalue the desire for people to not accumulate huge history databases for various things. A lot of people will feel the desire to keep these databases clean and spend large amounts of energy doing so. > That said, I'd think you're right here. We already have 3 taps to do > this, maybe an extra confirmation is not necessary. Would you please > file a bug? In general, it's better to enable "undo" than to have "are you sure" dialogs. Gmail is a good example of this where in a lot of its UI they don't warn when you delete emails. However they make it very easy to undo an accidental delete. This is something we should try to do throughout FirefoxOS. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
