Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#543 new enhancement
confirm before doing dangerous commands or allow to disable those commands
| Reported by: | pclouds | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 1.4.0 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | other |
Description
I usually press combo keys by both hands. Too often I reset machines by mistakenly pressing Right Ctrl with R (which usually means "reload"). I don't want to change hot key because I see no other hotkey better than that. So please, show a confirmation dialog before doing commands such as reset, close... or just allow me to disable them.
BTW, thanks for this great product!
Change History (9)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
comment:4 by , 16 years ago
| Component: | other → GUI |
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comment:5 by , 15 years ago
VirtualBox 2.1.4 still lacks at least confirmation dialogs for discarding snapshots and reverting current states.
comment:6 by , 14 years ago
VBox 3.0.10 on Windows Vista.
I tested most dangerous commands, but maybe I forgot a few, and most dangerous commands request manual "OK".
One notable exception is: Host+H (ACPI powerdown).
-Technologov
comment:7 by , 14 years ago
Manual shutdown is expected to be executed without any confirmation. I don't treat ACPI shutdown a dangerous command as the guest should either not handle this event, in that case nothing happens or the guest should sanely shutdown itself.
comment:8 by , 14 years ago
frank: When one is typing fast, one can by accident press Host+H and send guest to ACPI powerdown.
I feel adding a warning for this one makes sense. (like for reset button)
-Technologov
comment:9 by , 14 years ago
The "Reset" menu item, in particular, should really require confirmation, being so close to the Pause item. And now you know why I'm adding this comment. :( :(
I vote for this one. Please add some confirmation boxes to the GUI!
Right now I accidentally deleted a lot of work that was snapshoted because my mouse went crazy (the cursor moved by itself to the snapshot screen, hw problem...) when I clicked, the option selected was the "Discard snapshot and current state". It was too fast and didn't have any confirmation...
If there was a single box asking "are you sure???" this could be avoided...
Thanks for the product though. It works better on linux than vmware!