[Thunar-dev] Enhancement with trash

[Harold Aling]

Bob Snyder wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> Your point is well taken, but saying shift+del is just as easy is a bit 
> misleading. There is no shift+del option in the edit menu, nor is there 
> one in the right click context menu. One is forced to use the keyboard 
> to perform a delete.
>   
If you hold shift when you click on 'delete' in any menu, the file gets 
deleted...

In windows, very few users knows that (s)he can use shift-delete to 
directly delete files. If they want to delete a file, they will delete 
them, then empty the thrashbin to permanently delete them.

This is the preferred action and needed for consistency. If you don't 
want to use the thrashbin, I believe Thunar can be built without support 
for it...
> Yes, the idea of the gui is to make things easier on the user. One way 
> it does that is to allow many actions to be performed with the mouse.
>
>   
-H-
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