On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Stian Skjelstad
<st...@servoelectronics.no>wrote:

> > This is a real problem, but I don’t think the solution is a windows-like
> > alert dialog.
> >
> > Half of this problem is solved by the undo feature which is under
> > development. The other half consists in making file deletion more
> > noticeable. An animation with the file becoming red and/or flying to the
> > trash would be a nice addition.
>
> What if deleted files were visible as some ghost-like-icon in the directory
> they used to be? And it could be possible to turn on/off the visibility of
> deleted files? And you can have your animation then as well; of an icon that
> dies.
>


While I like this idea in a way, I think often deleting files is associated
with 'cleaning up' a directory, and having ghost icons there may just
encourage users to immediately empty the trash, which could cause more
problems than it solves (not being able to recover deleted files, etc).


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-Keith
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