Re: Delete Key and Nautilus

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

Hi

On Mit, 2004-07-14 at 09:55 -0400, wrote:
> I love Nautilus. But is there any way to prevent Nautilus from allowing 
> deletion of files and folders by simply pressing the DELETE key on the keyboard? It 
> seems very dangerous to me that you can do that without having a dialog box 
> ask you to confirm that you really want to delete the file or folder. 
> 
> The best thing for us would be to enable delete with the DELETE key, but 
> require a confirmation. 

If the option "Ask before emptying the Trash or deleting files" is
enabled, nautilus won't really delete anything without confirmation (if
it does it's a bug). Nautilus just moves files to Trash without
confirmation but that's not really dangerous as they can easily be
recovered.

Regards,

Jürg

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Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>