For those advocating a dialog confirmation, here's a relevant article from a usability professional, explaining why confirmation dialogs don't work in general as a way to protect user data:
Never use a warning when you mean Undo http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning I think this is the central point in the linked article: "interfaces that don’t respect habituation are very bad" -- Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
