[Patternfly] Destructive button states

Wed May 13 21:02:38 UTC 2015

Matt, thanks for bringing this up.  And thanks to Andres and Andreas for sharing examples.

I’m going to put a card for destructive actions in the backlog for the Design Patterns & Styles trello board.  I think we may want to have some suggestions as to when to/not to use destructive actions.  It also may be useful to have explanatory information/reason noted on the dialog so the user understands the significance of the action.  Sometimes, it’s obvious and not needed. I’m talking here about guidance on how to use the pattern, not the implementation of it.

tx
- serena

> On May 13, 2015, at 4:53 PM, Andreas Nilsson <anilsson at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-05-13 21:31, Matt Carrano wrote:
>> Hi Everyone,
>> 
>> I just wanted to float a question out there about usage of the Destructive states for buttons.  You can see here (https://site-patternfly.rhcloud.com/widgets/#buttons) that we support three states for buttons (Secondary (gray), Primary (blue), and Destructive (red)).  I'm curious if people are actually using the Destructive state in designs and, if so, under what conditions they use it.  Any examples will be helpful.
>> 
> 
> We use it in a couple of places in Cockpit.
> Attaching three examples:
> * Rebooting the machine - this will affect everyone currently getting served by the server. Signals to be careful!
> * Deleting a container from the overview - you can only get to this via a mode-switch to avoid accidental deletion. There is also a delete button on the container details page, also destructive.
> * Deleting a network bond - this could affect services listening on that interface.
> 
> In short, mostly things that delete stuff and that can mess up with running services and destroy work for the current users of those services.
> - Andreas
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