[development] Move "Delete" or "Reset" to tabs?

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Feb 9 16:32:23 UTC 2007


Quoting Konstantin Käfer <kkaefer at gmail.com>:

>
> On 09.02.2007, at 16:30, Rowan Kerr wrote:
>
>> A tab should change your view, not initiate a delete action. IMHO.
>
> It does change the view. Of course, the item is not deleted  
> instantaneously when you click on the tab but a confirmation page is  
> shown. The tabs are for this item (node, content type, ...), so you  
> can "view", "edit" and "delete" the node.
>

Why would the delete be a ``tab''?  Deleting is a form of editing; why 
not have the delete function on the ``edit'' form?  A checkbox with 
text like ``Yes, delete this page'' and a button labeled ``Delete'' 
could suffice.

Earnie


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