GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757375
No option to delete files
Last modified: 2016-01-04 11:38:33 UTC
Created attachment 314506 [details] nautilus settings Where is the option allowing me to delete a file without passing by trash?
This is intentional, see https://git.gnome.org/browse/nautilus/commit/?id=fdef74de4d6966cb86563a8710d863138bd9eaa8 You can permanently delete a file by pressing Shift and Delete on your keyboard.
I have a MacBook and I don't have a delete key on my keyboard.
(In reply to michel from comment #2) > I have a MacBook and I don't have a delete key on my keyboard. How do you delete?
I use the menu for that.
Looking on internet, Command+Backspace is how you delete on MacOSX, so I believe you can do shift+command+delete. Closing for now.
Shift+FN+Backspace worked. But why I can't just delete files from menu as I used to do... ?
Probably it is not considered a usecase common enough to justify an option in the user interface for all users, and there is a workaround for those users who consider it a usecase for their workflows.
Is there a config file that I can edit to add this option?
I hope not, for reasons given in comment 7 (a simple workaround is available), as every configuration option has a maintenance burden.
I still think a setting in dconf would be useful...
There are no plans to fix this currently, hence closing as WONTFIX.
Created attachment 316277 [details] [review] files-view: add setting for always show delete permanently Maintenance is not that much as long as we don't show it in any UI, and was requested by several people.
*** Bug 757987 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks Andre for taking care, however in this case this was a controversial issue and was not that hard to maintain so I decided to put it as a dconf option. Cheers. Attachment 316277 [details] pushed as 0e5f671 - files-view: add setting for always show delete permanently
As of 2015/11/21 Ths request is not in Nautilus 3.18 as it was in 3.16. A different implementation was presented. Perhaps it has yet not been released, or I am not looking at preferences or rightb mouse button action (which I tested). Please re-implement the feature that was available in Nautilus with 3.16 and earlier versions of Nautilus. We want to optionally completely avoid trashbin As implemented, this change IS DANGEROUS, because one may not want trashbin to be cleared without presenting a confirmation request. IN NAUTILUS VERSION 3.16 we had [x] Allow direct delete to avoid moving the file to the trashbin Again, this option was definitely not implemented in Nautilus 3.18 as mentioned in your RedHat bug comment 17 or shown above. What was implemented is [x] skip confirmation message on moving file to trash and on clearing trash. As implemented, this change IS DANGEROUS, because one may not want trash to be cleared without presenting a confirmation request. Please test/verify before closing out THIS IS NOT FIXED. Sorry
I'm not sure I understand your comment, nothing is dangerous here, it just add what nautilus previous 3.16 had. It's fixed for 3.20 as an option on dconf. Please verify the development version.
*** Bug 760001 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 756637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***