** Description changed:
- Binary package hint: nautilus
-
SUMMARY
If a file or a folder is selected in Nautilus and you accidently 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 )
- Very annying and dangerious bug to a common user - I deleted very
+ Very annoying and dangerous bug to a common user - I have deleted very
important data without realising then cleaned the Trash, so lost that
information.
NOTES
- For example, Konquerer asks you if you want to delete a file or a
- folder.
+ For example, Konquerer asks you if you want to delete a file or a folder.
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 and up
- ProblemType: Bug
- Architecture: i386
- Date: Sun Mar 25 11:36:22 2007
- DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
- Uname: Linux acer 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
+ POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
+
+ 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.
+
+ c. Perhaps you have another possible solution, that deals with the core
problem without impeding the workflow of others.
+ c/.
** Summary changed:
- Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before sending files to the trash
in Nautilus
+ Nautilus: too easy to move files/folders to Trash (single key press of
"Delete")
** Description changed:
SUMMARY
If a file or a folder is selected in Nautilus and you accidently 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 )
Very annoying and dangerous bug to a common user - I have deleted very
important data without realising then cleaned the Trash, so lost that
information.
NOTES
For example, Konquerer asks you if you want to delete a file or a folder.
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 and up
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
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.
- c. Perhaps you have another possible solution, that deals with the core
problem without impeding the workflow of others.
+ c. Some applications (such as Gmail) allow the operation, but notify the
+ user and present an "undo".
+
+ d. Perhaps you have another possible solution, that deals with the core
problem without impeding the workflow of others.
c/.
** Also affects: ayatana-design
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags added: needs-design
** Description changed:
SUMMARY
If a file or a folder is selected in Nautilus and you accidently 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 )
Very annoying and dangerous bug to a common user - I have deleted very
important data without realising then cleaned the Trash, so lost that
information.
NOTES
For example, Konquerer asks you if you want to delete a file or a folder.
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 and up
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
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
+ 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.
- c. Some applications (such as Gmail) allow the operation, but notify the
- user and present an "undo".
+ 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.
c/.
** Description changed:
SUMMARY
- If a file or a folder is selected in Nautilus and you accidently press
- Delete button, they are moved to the Trash.
+ 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 )
- 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.
- Very annoying and dangerous bug to a common user - I have deleted very
- important data without realising then cleaned the Trash, so lost that
- information.
+ 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
- For example, Konquerer asks you if you want to delete a file or a folder.
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.
+ 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.
- c/.
+ d. Perhaps you have another possible solution, that deals with the core
+ problem without impeding the workflow of others.
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Nautilus: too easy to move files/folders to Trash (single key press of
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