Re: [patch] confirm before sending to trash

[Steve <s tousignant gmail com>]

> I think I explained myself badly, because you don't seem to have
> understood. If you ACCIDENTALLY hit the delete key (for instance, as you
> reach for your coffee mug, or as your toddler bangs on the keyboard, or
> as your cat walks by when you are in the bathrom....) files are gone in
> the trashbin and unless you have nothing better to do than checking your
> trashbin everytime you empty it, they may be well gone forever. A dialog
> stops that. A key combination may also stop it.
> Flashing icons, popups and animations, do not stop that faulty behaviour.
>
> Is it better explained now?
>

Just want to jump in and share my personal experience with this
accidental use case on Windows.

Just sometime you want to delete a file, you have taken the habit of
using Shift-Delete to actually delete files. As usual you have to
press yes or no on the confirmation dialog to confirm your desire to
delete the said file. But just a the moment you told yourself you
don't want to delete this file but a mechanical move made you press
Space/Enter to confirm the suppression generally placed on "Yes"
option. Even otherwise if the option would have been "No", you can
quickly press tab then Space/Enter with the same repetitive mechanical
move you always do to speed up the process.

That said, i don't think this is a viable solution. I love Nautilus
because it does prevent those bad habit from happening. I would rather
have an undelete bar "à la GMail" instead of a confirmation dialog you
click aways. Even if your child does bang the keyboard and press
delete on a file, remember that there is still a high probability that
he/she will hit the Enter since on most keyboard the Delete key is
centimeter aways from the Enter key. So you will put the default
option to "No" then you come back with the same problem as i told
before.

The best way to improve the behavior is to not adding a confirmation
dialog but having a better undo feature. To bring back something that
saved my life earlier at the start of the year is a great Undo of
Dropbox. With this web service you can bring back file that you have
deleted with a back history as far as 2 or 3 month for the free
version, I think. And it does happen that my file was delete in this
time frame for whatever reason happened, I could bring them back. Why
it did happen i do not know but a little confirmation dialog would not
have saved me back then.

Just want to let you know that this kind of accident is just a corner
case which get in the way with a normal workflow and can't make your
life easier for the 0.1% of time an accident can happen. It should be
more efficient and less intrusive.

Steve