agofry:
1. Run 'gconf-editor'
2. Navigate to apps/nautilus/preferences
3. Ensure confirm_trash is ticked.
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After several years asking/waiting for the implementation of an option like
¨Prompt before send Files or Folder to trash¨ I´m almost near to left gnome,
it´s my favorite but many people needs this a simple option easy to implement.
If developers does n´t want to do ... well .. we just resign or
I don't know why it is not implemented.
Come on, it's no big deal : it's 20 lines of code, something like this ! look
at the proposed patch.
It's just an preference. It will harm noone, you can disable it or
enable it all file manager do it...
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Good news, the trashed on column will be in maverick: bug 301552.
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Holger Berndt wrote:
the question Which file did I just delete is pretty simple to answer, no
matter how many million files you have in your trashcan: It's the topmost.
How is it the topmost? The Wastebasket has no way to sort by deleted
date. If it did, then this improvement would be a lot
The Wastebasket has no way to sort by deleted date.
If it did, then this improvement would be a lot less urgent, IMHO
Please read what I wrote. Quoting myself:
In fact, current Nautilus git master has trashed-on column in list view, and
(irrespective of the view) sorts the trashcan by reversed
I don't understand the ongoing holy war at all. Why can't the
confirmation dialog be optional. Those who want it, will turn it on, and
those who don't want it will turn it off. Problem solved and everyone's
happy.
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To some people who think Delete is just a Move to Trash bin:
Suppose that you have 1500+ items in your trash bin. You pressed DEL without
noticing which file it was.
Objectively speaking, do you still think it is a reasonable behavior?
You'll understand how irritating this is if you commit and
Suppose that you have 1500+ items in your trash bin.
You pressed DEL without noticing which file it was.
A warning for every single move-to-trash operation to fix this
problematic usecase is implementing a cruel workaround instead of fixing
the issues (in this case trash view usability). In
@#92: That's what I said in #60 with my last sentence too:
change the combo to something like CTRL+m to prevent a shortcut that can be hit
by accident with a single key and to show it's not a deleting but a moving
operation.
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When an interface makes something too easy to do, it often causes
arguments like this one. One group of people gets frustrated that they
keep doing the thing by mistake. And another group of people -- for whom
too easy seems like an oxymoron -- can't believe that the first group
are making the
It bothers me that no one wants to fix this. It would seem more logical
to me that deletion of a file via the delete key needs more confirmation
than deleting with the mouse.
If you delete with the mouse that requires two clicks and mouse movement. It's
pretty intentional...
If you delete with
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 07:20 +, Druciferre wrote:
It bothers me that no one wants to fix this. It would seem more logical
This is not a bug, so there is nothing to fix. the Del key sends your
files in the trash, they are not gone. the command $ rm does remove the
files from your system, so
nomnex, I do not appreciate your attitude, assumptions that I am novice
user, and implication that I do not know how to use the rm command.
My point is that the warnings in place are the unnecessary ones and that
ones that ought to be necessary are what is being debated. Deleting a
file with the
*overhaul
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this is not a bug though myself and many other users really feel that
there needs to be a confirmation for the delete action (well at least an
option to turn it on - before the file(s) are moved to trash). whilst
most people are arguing that they are content with a confirmation on
delete of the
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 08:29 +, Druciferre wrote:
nomnex, I do not appreciate your attitude, assumptions that I am novice
user, and implication that I do not know how to use the rm command.
My point is that the warnings in place are the unnecessary ones and that
ones that ought to be
On second though, what some of you ask in this thread is a confirmation
to MOVE files and that's wrong.
We can do without warning confirmation for moving or copying files can't
we? You have one warning when you actually REMOVE files from you system
and that's appropriate.
And it goes without
I am sorry, but I got tired of this thread. Who do I close the bug (I am
the originator)?
I am a happy cretin user of Windows (yes, nomnex, you give very bad
impression of Linux users, unlike people in Ubuntu forums), so I do some
cretin stuff like Silverlight 4 development, VLDB processing and
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 12:55 +, Andrei Drynov wrote:
I am sorry, but I got tired of this thread. Who do I close the bug (I
am
the originator)?
I am a happy cretin user of Windows (yes, nomnex, you give very bad
impression of Linux users, unlike people in Ubuntu forums), so I do
some
@mac_v. thanks to clarify.
side-note: it did occurred to my mind calling imbeciles imbeciles was
rude, sorry about it ;-)
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oups, typo!
Edit: it did not occurred to my mind, etcetera.
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I am extrapolating. but whatever, when people open a bug/comment, asking
can you fix the problem while there is no problem, but these people
themselves, they should be turned down.
I welcome usability to some extend, eg. automount a USB drive, vs.
opening the prompt to mount the volume, but this
@nomnex : To maintain a respectful atmosphere, please follow the code of
conduct - http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct/ . This bug isnt part of the
papercuts , nor does nautilus upstream want to fix this either . Hence it is
marked upstream as 'wont fix
You might not agree with the bug
nomnex, I think you're getting one confirmation confused with a zillion.
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Well, you already get a confirmation if you want to delete the trash-
bin. So you are asking for two confirmations instead of one. The
question is: If one confirmation does not prevent you from deleting the
trash, why should a second confirmation make a difference? IMHO it
doesn't. It's just
I think this should be on by default... and I still do not see the point
of NOT asking novice users if they are sure to delete a document... It
is the one of the most dangerous thing you can do on a computer.
You removed control+Alt+backspace behaviour (which is great to remove
it) and I think we
Thank you for your work, could you send the change to GNOME for review?
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winning, winning, and praising... for details...
FN keys not working on most of the notebooks; hardware compatibility;
real software bugs, etc. there are serious issues out there with Ubuntu.
those should be the paper cut bugs: hardware compatibility and
usability.
such feedback on a thread from
I made a patch that will fix this by adding a new option to the preference
menu. The option is FALSE by default, meaning that default behavior is for
things to stay as they are. All those who want to be notified before moving
stuff to the trash just check it true.
Hopefully it will be committed
GG... You are awesome! Thank you so much. This is all that was needed
to fix this problem, and as you said, by default it will change nothing.
Please commit this!
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Can't believe this is not fixed. By not fixing this right away you are
giving so much arguments to new users to run away. I can't explain we
don't have to choice between a question before deleting or not. My
mother in law is having a new computer on Ubuntu for the first time and
because of this
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aljos, I see a proposal to add an option, which would not affect the
default experience of Ubuntu unless that option were activated. I see no
user data showing that a confirmation dialog before moving to trash
would improve user experience. I don't doubt that it would, but we can't
make large (it
In response to David Siegel
*jaw dropping dumbfoundedness*
I really have very few words for your comment and the actions that
followed. I have seen very few requests to solve a problem that have
simpler or more strait forward solutions. I fail completely to see how
your comment has anything
I support the proposed change.
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This bug has no clear fix, and no user testing has been done to
determine (A) if this is indeed a problem or (B) what the solution might
look like. This can no longer be considered a paper cut.
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Bug #95853:Need a confirmation dialog before winning as a cry-baby
The command is not DELETE. It is MOVE to trash. Use common sens before to empty
your trash folder.
Windows is the realm of a thousand pop up windows/warnings for every click and
key one pushes. If you need a nanny, get back to
Yeah, use common sense. Or move on to another windowmanager, if the
gnome dev's can't be bothered, to implement one stupid _option_, which
is not to bother anyone. Unless activated by default. I'm using awesome
now. There I can configure the behaviour all by myself. Screw you guys,
I'm going home.
I've tried toggling the checkbox on and off for Ask before emptying
Garbage bin or deleting files
I'm still not getting a confirmation prompt which slightly annoys me.
Like other users, I don't use the Garbage Bin unless I have to so I'd
prefer the confirmation prompt when deleting!
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I don't think it's an issue, merely deleting them in nautilus as they
can be recovered from the recycle bin. A notification would be good,
since people may delete by accident. But what is important is for a
confirmation dialogue to appear when deleting from the recycle bin, but
I think we already
I see different kinds of users and I would like to share my point of
view.
I'm one of the users who don't need a recycle bin. I'm aware of files I'm
deleting and when I delete them, I really don't need them anymore. So every
time I'm just deleting with shift+del and I'm getting a confirmation
I find so many parts of this discussion inane.
All that is needed here is an option! Just a simple item in the
preferences that allows you to enable an are you sure prompt. No
change is needed to the functionality of anything. The option can be
added unchecked by default and the average user
@Holger Berndt, I like it, I think it's a good idea!
@mac_v thanks for your support.
@all: Instead of a notification, maybe we could add a permanent undo
/redo-feature, which looks and works like in open office. It should be
familiar to most users and works fast and easy. Nodody would be
@mac_v : don't worry, I was just kidding... :) What I mean is even if
all of us on Launchpad are some kind of power users, some of us are more
prone to say things like :
I'm a grown up person and don't want to be treated by this machine like
an imbecile by continually being reminded of the same
@kikl: You still have to locate in the trash the deleted files after you
accidentally delete them. This can be really cumbersome and time-
consuming if there are hundreds of files in the trash.
Penalizing the user this way for a small mistake seems a bad idea,
specially if the warning before
Hi diego,
Just keep you're home tidy and you wont have a problem finding stuff.
The same goes for your computer, in particular your trash bin. If you've
got hundreds of files in your trash bin, then it is high time to clean
up the place. Do it, it's your responsibility. If you refuse to clean up
Seriously , this is a problem /mainly/ for keyboard layouts which have
the delete key close to arrow/enter.
Since this is more of a hardware specific + user preference specific issue ,
even if this feature is implemented,
Penalizing all the users wont be fair , there *should* be a way to turn
@all : this is fun stuff for an HMI designer/UX specialist... Indeed, an
excellent example case for a UX course : how to make a choice between all these
point of view, and make everyone happy ? IMHO, there's no way to make everyone
happy, as people have antinomic opinions. It seems we have 3
@kikl: Completely unrelated to whether it's a good idea to get undo
dialogs/bars on moving to trash or not, Nautilus's trash display does
indeed have poor usability. No deletion date grouping, sorting or even
displaying. Also, one can't really know where the files are going to be
restored to. That
@Holger Berndt:
There is bug for this feature,
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/301552
But was rejected in papercuts, because this was considered a difficult
task. Could you submit your idea there?
@ Yann Lossouarn, I dont think anyone who has commented here considers
For those advocating a dialog confirmation, here's a relevant article
from a usability professional, explaining why confirmation dialogs don't
work in general as a way to protect user data:
Never use a warning when you mean Undo
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning
I think this is
As for my opinion on the bug, I strongly favor the Undo button on a
yellow non-modal notification.
For those suggesting to copy Windows, note that in Windows' Explorer
there *is* a working undo feature when moving files to trash.
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The working undo feature is the trash bin! You could pop up a
notification, which disappears automatically, saying: You have just
deleted..., you can recover it from the trash bin. Once people get used
to this, they will not pay any attention to the notification, but at
least it doesn't distract
@kikl: the trash bin is not the same as an undo. Even if it provides the
same functionality, it is by far much more complex to use than a single
key-press (Ctrl-z).
Also last time I checked the trash bin didn't have a way to restore
files to the same place they were deleted (like Windows trash
@diego:
You can restore to the same folder by right clicking the file in the
garbage bin and checking restore. It's automatically restored to the
place, where it was deleted from. Unfortunately, you didn't find that,
so that should be improved too. The restore and delete permanently
options in
I think we have to be very careful not to copy stuff from windows, which
is actually being complained about by many many users. Vista constantly
asks you for all kinds of confirmations so much so that people don't
read any of the stuff anymore. They just blindly klick away... What good
is that?
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