Re: [patch] confirm before sending to trash

[giorgio <giorgio gilestro tk>]

> Why not create a patch which implements the suggested solution?

Because people came up with the most different ideas: some want a
popup notification in the status bar, some want the trashbin flashing,
some want a gmail-like bar, some want the animation from the window to
the trash, some want the ghost icons, some think there should be
nothing at all because the user need to learn to be more careful (yes,
I've read that too), etc etc etc.

So there is no guarantee that whatever I do will please anybody. I and
don't even aim to. All I was proposing was to adopt this as it is: a
patch, waiting for whatever else suits best.

Also, none of the solutions mentioned above actually are as effective
as a confirmation dialog: the only other suggestion that actually
would be really effective in avoiding accidental loss of data, is to
associate deletion of a file to a Ctrl-Delete o Alt-Delete, the way
MacOSX does it. I can patch that? Would that be committed?

Whit all my brainpower, I truly don't understand what is the problem
in giving the users the option to activate a confirmation dialog.

Giorgio F. Gilestro
http://gilest.ro



On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 04:01:10PM +0000, Giorgio F. Gilestro wrote:
>> I honestly find flabbergasting that every time this issue is raised,
>> the two major arguments against it are: "an alert it's not the perfect
>> way to do it" or "you can always recover things from the bin, anyway".
>
> Why not create a patch which implements the suggested solution?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Olav
>