Re: Trash Can in Naughtilus?

[Miles Lane <miles amazon com>]

Of course, it's really important to run the UI options through loads of 
usability testing and choose really good defaults.  Having everything be 
highly configurable is great, but so is having a UI that is somewhat 
familiar and provides a fairly frictionless transition for Windoze and 
MAC users.

The downside of having both the shredder and the trashcan if they are
near each other, it might lead to accidently (and unknowingly) dropping 
a file in the wrong place.

Another possiblity would be to have the icon flip between a shredder
and a trashcan depending on the currently selected behavior.


bob@thestuff.net wrote:
> 
> Why dont we resurect the "paper shreader" idea. the trashcan will keep it,
> and if you drop on the shreader, it nukes it. then, have the delete key be
> mapable to either one.
> 
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> 
> > 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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