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Bug 580312 - Non-intuitive term "Move to trash"
Non-intuitive term "Move to trash"
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
2.26.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-04-26 17:16 UTC by Mateusz Barucha
Modified: 2012-08-14 04:02 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26



Description Mateusz Barucha 2009-04-26 17:16:04 UTC
When browsing through file context menu, I've noticed that I couldn't find a command to delete it. Only after examining each item, I found "Move to trash".

IMHO it's unintuitive. An user doesn't want to move a file/folder, but to remove it (the fact that there's an undo - a trash, shouldn't change the terminology). The term "move" misses what user wants to do.

Simple "Delete" would be *much easier to spot*, especially when the menu has many items (16 in my case). It would be simpler and it would be shorter.

When user enables permanent deleting in preferences, the term could be "Delete permanently".

Other information:
The issue was already raised many times before in some places
(e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/usability@gnome.org/msg03430.html - see 4. "Move to Trash"
or http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1007979 - task "Search sample document from a specific option, delete and then restore it.")
but no action was taken.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-08-14 04:02:49 UTC
I think this is pretty straightforward. OS X uses the same phrase.