xffm handling

[Bernhard Walle]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 at 10:15 (-0500), edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> El jue, 19-06-2003 a las 09:26, Bernhard Walle escribió:
> > 
> > I have two proposals to improve the xffm handling:
> > 
> >  1. If I mark two files and want to delete them, I normally right click.
> >     But this doesn't work in xffm since only one file is deleted then.
> >     I think the normal behaviour of a context menu should be to do the
> >     operations on the marked are, not on last-clicked.
> 
> You have to press CTRL while doing right click on the last file. This
> will select the last file and bring up the popup without unselecting
> anything previous. This is linked to the way the gtk handler works so
> there's not much that can be do about it (save write a new event
> handler). You can also use the delete key, main menu entry or toolbar
> button to delete all without unselecting.

Ok, I didn't know that. Maybe you (or Benedikt) can add this as a tip!!?

 
> >  2. There's no possibility to set up xffm in a way that files would be
> >     immediately deleted by default. What do you think about such a
> >     option. It should just change the preselection in the confirm
> >     dialog from "Trash" to "Delete".
> 
> Kind of a "oops" safeguard. One of the initial xffm designs had a
> "trash'em" and a "delete'em" buttons instead of the checkbox and the
> "yes" button. 

That's the way Konqueror does it and I don't like it either. 

What I thought is a global (maybe Non-GUI) option to preselect "Delete"
instead of "Trash" for people who know that they do.


Regards,
Bernhard

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