Give option to assign keyword of deleting userpic to still in use icon

[matgb]

Title:
Give option to assign keyword of deleting userpic to still in use icon

Area:
icons

Summary:
When deleting icons, there should be a prompt allowing the keyword to be auto assigned to a non-deleted icon

Description:
I've just deleted a bunch of pics to bring me down to the paid account limit. Most of my icons have meaning or text, and add context to an entry, thus I want old posts to continue to have a non-default icon. I have therefore manually assigned the keywords of deleted pics to icons I'm keeping. This was annoying, longwinded and time consuming, it's not a taskflow normal users are likely to follow.

I intend to further delete more icons, to create space for new ones, etc. I'd like this to be a lot easier and less frustrating.

In addition, many users (here and on LJ) are completely unaware of the feature that allows icons to have multiple keywords, and those that change icons regularly end up with a large number of older posts and comments just displaying their default pic--I dislike this, especially on comments made to my old entries.

A solution can be that when you tick an icon for deletion, there is a method to automatically assign the keyword to a different icon if the user wishes. This could be acheived using Ajax, an interstitial page after hitting save changing, listing deletions and giving a standard dropdown to select, or other methods.

It might actually be good to have an "are you sure" prompt for icon deletion anyway, I nearly deleted the wrong icon more than once, so this could be implemented as part of a general workover of the UI & taskflow for the manage icons page.

Of course, many would prefer not to keep old keywords, so it must be completely optional, and done in as user friendly a way as possible.

Poll #1833 Give option to assign keyword of deleting userpic to still in use icon

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 25

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Should be implemented as-is.
11 (44.0%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
5 (20.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (4.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (32.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[syderia]

I'm not completely sure I would want an "are you sure?" prompt when I delete an icon. I tend to find these prompts annoying.

[matgb]

That's not a key part of the suggestion, just me putting in a side idea at the end--essentially, the whole page could do with a do-over, I'm thinking of something AJAXy where you click a delete button and it goes almost immediately, rather than a mass of checkboxes and a save changes button--I sometimes forget to hit 'save', then my changes aren't actioned, etc.

But that's really a separate idea that could be implemented with this, I probably shouldn't have put it in, oops.

[kyrielle]

I like the tickyboxes and save, they're efficient. Dynamic things when they don't need to be that dynamic (my opinion and obviously not yours!) just add processing load and visual aggravation, for me. Plus undoing a ticky box is easy, undoing something already vanished is not.

Does the page not say "hey, you have unsaved changes!" if you navigate away or close w/o saving? If not, it should.

[matgb]

No, it doesn't, and that would be a good fix, yes.

[cheyinka]

These are the changes that my vote mentions. :)

[kerravonsen]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Option to assign keyword to a different icon, yes. "Are you sure?" chck when deleting - please no. It's annoying.