Openrefine: Change Project Delete to use red color text instead of blue 'X' png

Created on 6 Apr 2020  路  4Comments  路  Source: OpenRefine/OpenRefine

Is your feature request related to a problem or area of OpenRefine? Please describe.
Users are not seeing how to delete a Project in OpenRefine.
User tweeting about this:
https://twitter.com/ruthbrarian/status/1243243600223391745

Took me forever to see the little Xs to delete them too

We also use currently use differing styles for Actions to perform on a Project:

  • Img
  • Text

Describe the solution you'd like
Make the style consistent. Change the style to use red text instead:
Before change:

<td><a class="delete-project" title="Delete this project" href=""><img src="images/close.png"></a></td>

After change:

<td><a class="delete-project" title="Delete this project" href="" style="color: red;">Delete</a></td>

Describe alternatives you've considered
Do nothing and confuse users more.

Additional context
Before change:
image
After change:
image

UI enhancement

Most helpful comment

I think it would be good to try to keep some consistency with the rest of the style of the UI (although this project list has already been butchered widely in that regard). A red "Delete" is quite aggressive.

We could consider other options, perhaps a trash can icon?

All 4 comments

I think it would be good to try to keep some consistency with the rest of the style of the UI (although this project list has already been butchered widely in that regard). A red "Delete" is quite aggressive.

We could consider other options, perhaps a trash can icon?

We need to not label things as "good first issue" when they are not fully spec'd out. It's discouraging to new contributors to continually have the goal posts moved.

I like the idea of the trash can icon in one of the colors from our current palette.

Sure, then perhaps the solid or outline one from https://material.io/resources/icons/?search=delete&style=baseline

The pitch on the lines currently is pretty tight, so there isn't a ton of room to work with. We might be able to get away with an 18 px version of "Delete forever" by increasing line spacing a pixel or two.

baseline_delete_forever_black_18dp

The color of the current X seems fine to me (or at least as good as any since we already have like 4 different colors per project line).

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