No way to remove library from the library manager dialog.

[damellis]

I just installed the Adafruit CC3000 library using the library manager dialog in Arduino 1.6.3. No there's no way to remove the library from the dialog. Shouldn't this be possible?

[ffissore]

I've written a short explanation: https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/wiki/Library-Manager-FAQ#how-can-i-delete-a-library Does it make sense?

[damellis]

Kind of...

I understand why you wouldn't want to delete libraries that the user was developing or editing. On the other hand, it seems confusing that I can click a button to install a library but can't click another button to remove it. Maybe there should be a check to see if the library has been edited since it was installed and, if so, you could give a warning before deleting it?

For libraries that were installed manually, it doesn't seem so strange to require them to be deleted manually. (It might be convenient to be able to delete them from the dialog, but I understand why you might not want it.)

Also, is it possible to move libraries into the user's trash instead of deleting the files outright? That might eliminate some of the concern about having a simple way to remove libraries.

[ffissore]

Accessing trashbin could really help: I've never investigated how to do that. Anyway, you seem to have my same point of view (allow deletion of "managed" libs, not user libs), but it clashes with that of Alice :)

It's a UX issue we should discuss on basecamp

[q2dg]

Moving files to trashbin could be achieved using these (bundled?) utilities:

-Linux: There is gvfs-trash (only for Gnome) and some utilities: trash-cli (requires Python), xdg-trash (requires Node)...
-Windows: http://www.maddogsw.com/cmdutils or https://github.com/kizzx2/cmd-recycle
-OS X: https://github.com/reklis/recycle or https://github.com/sindresorhus/osx-trash or http://hasseg.org/trash

[ffissore]

Thanks @q2dg , I'll loot at them

[wayoda]

Also, is it possible to move libraries into the user's trash instead of deleting the files outright?

No worth the effort! When the user finds out later it was an error to delete a library he can always download and reinstall it from the library manager.
When the user starts to restore a library from the trashbin there is a good chance to mess up the arduino library dir.

[PaulStoffregen]

Perhaps the IDE should compare all of a library's files to their originals, before deleting. If any are modified, maybe a "are you sure you want to discard your changes" dialog could appear? Or maybe the IDE should refuse to delete and suggest the user has to do it manually.