GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 132751
Clicking a broken link in trash asks if you want to move to trash
Last modified: 2005-12-12 10:02:34 UTC
Steps to reproduce: 1. Move a broken link to the thrash. 2. Double click it. 3. An nice and friendly popup will tell you that the link is broken and asks if it should be moved to the thrash, but ignoring the fact that it's already in thrash. 4. When confirming the move to the thrash it tells you it's going to remove the link permanatly. Expected: A messages that tells you that the link is broken but doesn't give you the option to move it to the thrash seen it's already there.
*** Bug 132750 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm tentatively marking this minor- clicking on a link in the trash is not going to be a frequent behavior, right? Also correcting spelling in the subject. :)
I'd like to point out that this bug also affects the way you use your trash. I always open up my trash and select the items to remove from it, then click delete on my keyboard to remove them. When doing this, you can't remove broken links from the trash. You have to right-click on the trash icon and select "empty trash". Personally this is quite an annoying bug. To see my description of the bug see: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18406 I don't know if that changes the severity of the bug or not.
Hi! I'm wondering if it's really so hard to fix this bug (since it's open for almost 2 years)? This bug introduces major usability flaw in trash (can't delete everything the same way) so it's severity and priority should be higher. Sandis
Lakin, Sandis: You're referring to another bug, which is partially a GnomeVFS issue. It should at least be partially fixed. I've submitted a patch changing the dialog titles for the "broken symlink" dialog title, and which does not add the "Move to Trash" option for trashed symlinks: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-December/msg00011.html
commited.