xffm handling

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Thu, 19, Jun 2003, Bernhard Walle wrote:

> > > > >  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.
> > >
> > 
> > How about a configure time option? You could just comment out line 829
> > and line 441 to forget about trash. 
> 
> I don't like such things because then I cannot use precompiled packages
> from my distribution. And when I sit in front of another computer (like
> in university) where I'm able to configure but not to install programs I
> cannot use it, too.

configure --prefix=$HOME/whatever && gmake && gmake install

XFce does not require any binary to be installed setuid.

> Regards,
> Bernhard

Benedikt

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