GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 302607
Deleting files from burn:// results in a scary dialog
Last modified: 2005-10-18 15:58:07 UTC
When you try to delete files in burn://, a confirmation dialog is presented that says: "Are you sure you want to permanently delete foo.txt? If you delete an item, it is permanently lost." This is misleading and scary, as the file isn't wiped from the disk, in fact it is just removed from burn://. This dialog is the same dialog that nautilus pops up for regular files and you can't tell the difference between the two. I think that the n-c-b's dialog should be different and clearer. Also, the "Move to trash" entry is useless (move to trash a "virtual" file?) and, beside that, it (correctly?) doesn't work: no files are added to the trash bin. Other information:
Strange, I don't see this behavior at all.
Ok, this dialog is the result of the "Delete" action that only appears if the user has selected "Include a Delete command that bypasses Trash" in the nautilus preferences. This is really a nautilus issue. But I'll try to look into it.
We've already added special-casing of the burn:/// method in Nautilus in the past, so I don't think it would be much of a problem to add more, as long as it wasn't *too* specific (the dialog could probably just go away if the file is in burn:/// as it's not the real file getting removed).
Reassigning to Nautilus.
Patch available under: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-October/msg00056.html
The patch was committed, this will be fixed in Nautilus 2.12.2 and 2.14.