Isaac, thank you for that comment - you are just hitting the nail on the head!!
I'm IT professional for 25 years and decided to change to ubuntu 8.04 LTS - I really like it. On the other hand I can't believe that nobody took care on the need of so many users since more than 8 years now. I read about hundreds of workarounds in GNOME to change Nautilus short cuts, but I didn't make any of them work for Ubuntu. Hitting DEL by accident may happen to everybody !! Please Nautilus developers out there bring this annoying discussion to an end. any of the above mentioned options would be fine. I hate wasting time to check the trash before deleting its content - that's just not user friendly. Regards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95853 Title: Nautilus: too easy to move files/folders to Trash (single key press of "Delete") Status in Ayatana Design: New Status in Nautilus: Won't Fix Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: SUMMARY If a file or a folder is selected in Nautilus and you accidentally press Delete button, they are moved to the Trash. NO warning is issued (even though in Nautilus Preferences "Ask before emptying the Trash or deleting files" is selected ) In comment #39, Holger Berndt notes that the present behaviour is intention. Moving an item to the Trash is a revertible action, whereas emptying the Trash is not revertible. However, this can be very annoying and dangerous bug to a common user - a user may have pressed "Delete" to move very important data to the Trash, and then, without realising the previous action have cleaned the Trash, so permanently loosing that information despite there being a two-step (and partially revertible) process. NOTES DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 and up POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS In comment #38, David Siegel notes that the options would be ripe for some proper user testing research and design. a. In comment #92 Matthew Paul Thomas notes that a better solution to the problem of it being too easy to delete (move to Trash) files/folders with a single keypress would be to change the keypress to be a combo. For example the combo could be Ctrl-Delete. b. In comment #107 (and also earlier in the thread), Giorgio Gilestro supplies a patch to add another configuration key ('/apps/nautilus/preferences/confirm_delete') and accompanying user interface components to make single key deletion require a dialogue box pass-through. Some other environments, such as Konquerer, ask the user if they want to delete a file or a folder. c. In comment #28 Wouter Stomp, notes that applications (such as Gmail) allow the operation, but notify the user with a "yellow box" at the top and an "undo"/"cancel" option. d. Perhaps you have another possible solution, that deals with the core problem without impeding the workflow of others. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/95853/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
