Make it harder to delete users from user list.

Submitted by kingtobbe on Tue, 05/19/2015 - 15:51
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Hello! Using the Windows client I keep removing people from my user list when I really want to browse them. The reason for this is that these to options are next to each other in the context menu and there is no confirmation message so if you click the wrong one the user is gone. I keep doing this and since my memory is on par with my mouse aim it's usually a permanent thing. Would be nice if there was a confirmation message to removing a user, or if that option was slightly less readily available. Perhaps instead of an option in the context menu it could be a button in the main menu bar, perhaps next to add user? This is the context menu in question: http://i.imgur.com/cfwBsRv.png This is not a very big problem and seeing that I didnt find another request like this it's most likely something not many people do, but if it's easy to accomplish and if it seems pertinent please feel free to impement it. Thanks Nir for this amazing community and application, one of is kind!
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Submitted by dogbite on Wed, 05/20/2015 - 05:11.

I must admit that similar thing happened to me a few times as well but i dont think that the core of the problem lies in the position of certain context menus but rather the icons itself. They seem a bit small and repeat each other a lot: browse, upload and unshare have same icons.

http://i.imgur.com/cfwBsRv.png
Remove user from list is probably the worse icon in there since its very white and thus making it very hard to spot on first look.

By simply moving to a new place would somewhat solve your problem but to effectively fix this cosmetic problem, SLSK would need new refreshed icons that are more specific to sight.

Submitted by TJT on Thu, 05/21/2015 - 13:52.

Another idea would be to add a prompt only when removing somebody from a usergroup on your userlist. I add and remove people temporarily to my userlist all the time, but I have accidentally removed people that were in my main usergroup. It would be nice if people in usergroups were unremovable from your list without a prompt. The only way I can safely and quickly remove a temporary vs. permanent user is by opening a message window.

Submitted by kingtobbe on Thu, 06/11/2015 - 04:36.

Great ideas, I'd be pretty satisfied with either.

A sanitycheck/prompt would have been nice. I have no clue how hard this would be for Nir to do but even just moving it's position up or down in the context menu would be of great help to me and my unvoluntarly dynamic user list.

Browse user is the option I use 99.9% when I open that context menu, however it seems as though this wasn't such a common problem as I assumed. I guess the average user don't have the same lacking short-term memory I suffer from after diving into a shallow rockbed two years back, and can just re-add whoever they accidently remove.