Re: [patch] confirm before sending to trash

[Holger Berndt <berndth gmx de>]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:47:59 +0100, giorgio <giorgio gilestro tk> wrote:

> > The only scenario where control+delete would maybe make things safer
> > anyways is the "cat walks over the keyboard while I'm in the
> > bathroom" scenario.
> 
> 
> Not quite true. People did and still do lose files by accidentally
> hitting the delete key, which is why this issue has a long history of
> requests by the users on the first place (and why all other file
> managers but nautilus have a failsafe mechanism before sending items
> to the trash).
> 
> Also, I am ready to bet a beer that it shall not take longer than a
> couple of days for you to get used to the new key combination. Give
> your brain plasticity some credit.

Don't worry, my brain is not the problem. (Although, for me, it will
take long, as I work on Windows all day long. But that's not an
argument - for Mac users, the new situation might be an improvement for
the very same reason.)

The problem as I see it is that the proposed solution does a poor job
at solving the problem, for the reasons described in the part that you
didn't quote.

Holger.