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[note] Add confirmation dialog when deleting note with real content

We've gotten feedback that it's too easy to accidentally delete a note now. While there is an undo notification, this is still a fairly scary thing to have happen if your accidentally-deleted note had important content in it. Also, the notification is persistent, but only persists for 60 seconds (plasmashell manually revokes it after that). So if you accidentally delete a note and go to get coffee or fail to notice the notification, the content will be lost forever.

To improve the situation here, we now show a warning dialog when you attempt to delete a note that has user-generated content in it. If the note is empty, or if the note's content is identical to the top clipboard entry (as in he case where the user created the note via middle-click paste), then it is instead deleted immediately.

Hopefully this will be an adequate compromise between the desire to make it easy to delete accidentally-created notes and the importance of keeping user data safe.

simplescreenrecorder-2021-03-07_14.16.08

simplescreenrecorder-2021-03-07_15.46.31

cc @teams/vdg

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