On 11 July 2012 16:35, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 July 2012 16:07, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 11 July 2012 12:47, Barry Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi there .... 12.04 and previous had a preferences menu item in > Nautilus. > >> Among other things, this allows the setting of a delete menu item as > well as > >> the 'move to trash' item. In 12.10 Quantal, this seems to have > disappeared. > >> Anyone know if this should be reported as a bug? > > > > You are right, Edit > Preferences appears to be missing in Nautilus in > > Quantal. I will search for a bug report. In the meantime, however, > > if you hit Alt to bring up the HUD and type preferences then it finds > > it, but as a top level item rather than under Edit. Not sure what > > that means. The "Include a Delete command that bypasses the Rubbish > > Bin" option is on the Behaviour tab as before. > > @Barry: I could not find a relevant bug so have reported it [1]. > Could you attach yourself and mark it confirmed? > > Are you using unity-2d by any chance. I am but I would not expect > that to be part of the problem. > > Is the HUD working ok for you in Nautilus on Quantal? For me it > hardly finds anything. I feel another bug report coming on. > > Colin > > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1023471 > > > > Colin > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
If I want to permanently delete a file in Nautilus, I just highlight it and press Shift-Delete (same as in that other OS). Very wisely, it asks for confirmation before it does delete it. I assume that this will work in Quantal just as it does in Precise. Tony
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