Confirming file deletion in Thunar

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 7 14:50:41 CEST 2012


On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 18:04:27 -0500
Albert Wagner wrote:

> On 06/06/2012 11:30 AM, RW wrote:
> > On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 11:15:09 -0500
> > Albert Wagner wrote:
> >> Conceptually, "delete" and "move to trash" are different.  One is
> >> instant and the other is deferred.  If "delete" also becomes
> >> deferred, then there is no longer any difference.
> >>
> > What, if anything, does that have to do with undoing a move to
> > Trash?
> Absolutely nothing.  You complained about the behaviour of the
> "delete" option.  Your title contained "delete".  Perhaps I am
> confused and the behaviour of "delete" has changed again.

I was using Thunar's own terminology: delete on the context menu sends
selected files to trash. The delete key does the same thing.

In your original sarcastic reply you clearly understood what I meant by
"Confirming file deletion":

> Won't you then be sending "far to many files to Trash?" by hitting
> the "confirm" key?



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