Re: Trash Can in Naughtilus?

[Miles Lane <miles amazon com>]

I would still want the option to have items that I dragged to the trashcan
be deleted immediately without confirmation.

John Sullivan wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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