GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 654311
Delete files/folders from the file chooser
Last modified: 2011-08-02 08:12:24 UTC
When I started using windows, it doesnt took long until I found the possibility to use an open or save dialog to delete files. How I like it! An application that you have used to save a file with will probably open the same directory if you choose to use "save as" yet another time. That gives us a fast way to take us to the directory where you probably work a lot at the moment. So if you happen to save a file with the wrong filename, you use "save as", deletes the file with the wrong filename with the save dialog, but before you close the save dialog, you enter the new name and press ok. Or if you just want to clean up the directory, you choose "save as", deletes some files and press cancel.
I read this three times and don't understand the request, as I don't know Windows. Do you talk about deleting from the open/save dialog? If so, what are the steps that you'd expect to be able to?
1. open text editor 2. write some text 3. open save dialog and save as foo.txt 4. Do some changes in the document 5. open save dialog and save it as foobar.txt this time since thats a better name 6. open save dialog to see which files we have in the directory, foo.txt can be deleted as well as an image that is in the directory, I dont use it any longer. 7. make the items while still having the save dialog open and press delete, they dissapear 8. press cancel or esc to close the save dialog
Correction to the previous post make=mark (point 7)
-> GtkFileChooser the open/save dialog is GtkFileChooser, not nautilus.
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