GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 747183
documents: Use the trash
Last modified: 2015-04-01 23:16:27 UTC
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Created attachment 300751 [details] [review] documents: Use the trash It's there for when the user makes a mistake, but also for when the software makes one.
Bug ate your files. You're angry. I feel for you, I really do. But undo is so much better for fixing an immediate human error. Trash is just a lame workaround.
(In reply to Jakub Steiner from comment #2) > Bug ate your files. You're angry. I feel for you, I really do. But undo is > so much better for fixing an immediate human error. Trash is just a lame > workaround. We are not taking away undo. The question is: what happens when you are beyond that. Given the target audience of the application (don't expose the filesystem, etc.), how is putting a file in trash different from actually deleting it? Are you worried about not reclaiming disk space? Also, the way we expose the undo to the user, it is not very clear what is going on. It is not clear that it is based on a timer and that it will be permanently [1] gone in a few seconds. [1] It is permanent, even if we finally put it in the trash, because you don't have a UI to restore it from the application.
(In reply to Jakub Steiner from comment #2) > Bug ate your files. You're angry. I feel for you, I really do. But undo is > so much better for fixing an immediate human error. Trash is just a lame > workaround. As rishi said, it doesn't take that away, it just puts it in the Trash instead of irrevocably and irreparably deleting it from the filesystem.
Review of attachment 300751 [details] [review]: I do think this is right. Effectively, if the user did not click undo, she still will be able to find the file in the trash which makes sense to me. It also matches Nautilus' behavior.
Attachment 300751 [details] pushed as a0b4ad8 - documents: Use the trash