Re: Trash Can in Naughtilus?

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 2/27/00 9:26 PM, bob@thestuff.net at bob@thestuff.net wrote:

> Yes, but deleteing it 4 times is anoying.
> delete. "do you want to delete?" yes.
> empty trash. "do you want to empty?" yes.
> takes far to long. one verification is enough for me. :)
> anyway, being able to disable it would be a very good thing.

The first confirmation is totally unnecessary if it's going to go into the
Trash. I know Windows has this all messed up, with a combination of
confirmations and behavior that are guaranteed to not quite do the right
thing.

The Mac model is better. There is no "delete", only "Move to Trash". There's
no confirmation to move something to the trash, since it's not a dangerous
operation. There is a confirmation on emptying the trash, since it is a
dangerous operation. The confirmation can be overridden (by holding down the
option key when selecting the menu item).

One thing missing from the Mac model that I've always wanted is the ability
to individually delete from the disk items in the Trash, so you don't have
to empty all the Trash just to really get rid of that one darn item that you
really don't want on your disk. Hopefully we will be able to have this
feature in Nautilus when we implement the Trash.

John Sullivan