Display a confirmation dialogue on activating the commands "Reset configuration to factory defaults" and "Revert to saved configuration"

[kara-louise]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently, after executing the "Reset configuration to factory defaults" command, it is carried out with no confirmation dialogue. This can be a problem if it was done accidentally, e.g. by pressing the wrong key while in the NVDA menu. This could be even more of an issue if someone quits NvA with the option "Save configuration when exiting NVDA" enabled, and has probably forgot or is unaware of it. They could then inadvertently overwrite their settings they have spent years customising.
Slightly less of an issue is that the "Revert to saved configuration" command also has no confirmation dialogue

Describe the solution you'd like

For both commands, Display a dialogue asking the user if they're sure they want to proceed with yes and no buttons. Also, have no shortcut keys assigned to them by default.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None.

Additional context

I have heard of a user who activated "Reset configuration to factory defaults" by accident but luckilly realised and was able to use the revert option.

[Adriani90]

dialog for reset to factory defaults is covered in #6648. That issue contains already valuable information for implementing this. Please limit this issue description to revert to saved configuration since there is no issue opened for that yet.

[XLTechie]

For both commands, Display a dialogue asking the user if they're sure they want to proceed with yes and no buttons. Also, have no shortcut keys assigned to them by default.

To the yes and no buttons? Or to the reset functions themselves?

[XLTechie]

So, @kara-louise, I've heard this request plenty of times before. Let me ask you something, concentrating on the Revert to saved settings option for a moment. If a user does something that causes there to be no speech--lowers the NVDA volume to zero, goes into an unfamiliar speech mode, disables keyboard feedback, etc. And they want to get out of this situation: what should they do? If they press the shortcut keys to revert, they will hear no feedback, so can't hear the confirmation dialog. If you meant that there should be no shortcut keys, are you saying that they should have memorized the NVDA menu enough to reach this rarely used function without feedback, and then navigate the question dialog with no feedback?

[kara-louise]

To the yes and no buttons? Or to the reset functions themselves?
I meant the reset functions.

[kara-louise]

regarding your second comment @XLTechie I didn't think of that issue. You're right, that would be a problem.

[kara-louise]

dialog for reset to factory defaults is covered in #6648.

@Adriani90 I searched for Reset configuration to factory defaults before creating this issue but didn't see the one you mentioned. Any tips for searching for issues on here would be greatly appreciated since I seem to be creating a lot of duplicates recently.

[Adriani90]

I use the in:title operator along with some of the strings I would add to the title.For example Is:Issue is:open in:title factoryled quite fast to that issue.Sometimes you have to perform searches multiple times with different combinations of key words.E.g.in:title revert settingsGives good results, but in:title settingsis too vague.I wrote a post in the nvda users mailing list some time ago about issues on Github but I cannot find it right now.Von meinem iPhone gesendetAm 08.04.2024 um 17:34 schrieb kara-louise ***@***.***>: dialog for reset to factory defaults is covered in #6648. @Adriani90 I searched for Reset configuration to factory defaults before creating this issue but didn't see the one you mentioned. Any tips for searching for issues on here would be greatly appreciated since I seem to be creating a lot of duplicates recently. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Adriani90]

Sometimes you get more results and you have to read through some of them to be sure whether it is a duplicate or not.To scroll through titles faster you can use the vertical navigation, you must assign a key gesture for it. I assigned nvda+alt+ctrl+down and up arrow cause it is quite similar to table navigation. It‘s too bad that this is not assigned by default. Many users will be cut off from this great feature unless they discover the entry in the input gestures dialog or they read carefully the user guide.Von meinem iPhone gesendetAm 08.04.2024 um 17:34 schrieb kara-louise ***@***.***>: dialog for reset to factory defaults is covered in #6648. @Adriani90 I searched for Reset configuration to factory defaults before creating this issue but didn't see the one you mentioned. Any tips for searching for issues on here would be greatly appreciated since I seem to be creating a lot of duplicates recently. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[kara-louise]

Thanks for those tips @Adriani90.

[kara-louise]

regarding your second comment @XLTechie I didn't think of that issue. You're right, that would be a problem.
Or, have a command that just resets the volume.

[XLTechie]

Or, have a command that just resets the volume.

The problem is, that is only one of lots of things that can go wrong which a revert can fix. It's impossible for NVDA to know which one is wrong that you are revertingto solve--maybe you wanted to switch to speech mode off, or change your language to Hindy, and these aren't accidents.

[gerald-hartig]

Closing as this is the desired behaviour.