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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Trash, Delete, Shred
From:       Jan Schumacher <uzs5p3 () uni-bonn ! de>
Date:       2003-06-28 14:15:56
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On Saturday 28 June 2003 03:15, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> The patch replaces the 3 actions "Trash", "Delete" and "Shred" with a
> single "Delete" action. This is then configurable in the kcm_konq
> module.

I understand that large menus might be cumbersome, but I personally was 
confused, when the shred action was removed from the context menu. I thought 
it had been removed from konqueror and only found its shortcut by accident. 

Perhaps you could change the name of the menuitem depending on the 
configuration? That way "Delete" will mean delete, and "Shred" will mean 
shred, rather than different things depending on configuration.

> I have in mind something like this:
>
> -- Deleting local files --
> (o) move to trash
> ( ) delete
>    [x] shred after delete [only enabled when delete from hd is selected]
>
> [x] confirm before deleting files
>
> Remote files will be deleted without moving to the trash, even if move
> to trash is selected.
>
> Comments would be welcome. One point to note is whether shift+DEL should
> do pure delete, ctrl+DEL do shred etc. I am against that because I think
> that it is probably rather easy to do it by accident. You have "move to
> trash" on and "confirm" off; you mean to hit DEL and accidentally hit
> shift+DEL: then your files are really deleted without confirmation. But
> if a lot of people use this feature, we could keep it and auto-enable
> confirmations.

Actually, I use both "Delete" and "Move to Trash" often, so I would miss their 
individual shortcuts. Right now I am being warned, if I want to delete, but 
not when moving a file. I would miss that feature if there was only a global 
setting for all of them.

I wonder if it would make sense to make (context) menus configurable like 
toolbars. That way the default could have very few commands, but advanced 
users can taylor them to their liking. Then again, maybe it's overkill.

Regards
Jan
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