[Thunar-dev] Enhancement with trash

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:36:51 +0200 - Oblio <apa.chioara at gmail.com> wrote :
> 
>>> If I shoot myself in the foot I will not blame the gun. Unix type
>>> systems have done pretty well for many years with a command that
>>> simply deletes and I'm only saying that it should be an option for
>>> me to have the same action from the DE.
>>>
>>
>> rm is infamous for all the disasters it caused. Read The Art of Unix  
>> Programming
>> or The Unix Haters Handbook. For the common user, using the trash is  
>> *highly*
>> recommended, and using shift-del isn't that big a deal anyway, for
>> the rest of us.
> 
>   No, really no.  I use myself Thunar once every two or three days, and
> Shift-Del isn't annoying at all.  If I need to clean up my system and
> ``rm'' a lot I open a terminal.

Well, I think the bike-shed should be blue! [1]

Seriously, it's a GUI.  The idea of a GUI is to make things easier
on the user, not to complicate the interface with confusing options.
 That's not saying configurability isn't good, but requiring a
preference because hitting shift+del is too much extra work for you
over just del is pretty silly.  (Though, Thunar's accelerators might
be customisable already, so...)

If you want to be a power user and delete things like crazy, open a
terminal window.

Maybe I like red better, though...

	-brian

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshed_color

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