On 04/01/2012 23:42, Adam Dingle wrote:
The essential problem here is that there are several possibilities and
it's tricky to design a nice user interface which offers the user any
of the following:
1. Move to the Shotwell trash.
2. Remove from the library, while leaving the file in place.
3. Remove from the library and move the file to the desktop trash.
4. Remove from the library and delete the file outright.
As a compromise, Shotwell currently lets the user perform operations
1-3 but not 4. If you have a concrete suggestion about how we could
add possibility 4 without cluttering the user interface, we could
consider it.
I guess it's a bit of an old-school thing too. Coming from a pre-GUI
Linux environment I'm still not used to the idea of having a Desktop
Wastebasket and have never found it useful. Even now I always have to
read the dialogue twice after Shift-Delete to make sure it's about to do
what I expect it to do.
I think a good solution to this problem could be to unify the Shotwell
and desktop trashes (http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2645); that would
reduce the set of options we need to offer the user.
I still like the idea of a 'real delete' although I accept the
philosophy that shotwell should manage photos, not files.
Dougie
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