On Mon, 2010-12-20 at 01:45 +0800, Sam Spilsbury wrote: > Hi everyone > > Just thought of an annoying quirk that could either be papercutted or > considered by design - the default nautilus behavior is to always move > stuff to a "trash" folder and not actually delete it unless you empty > the trash. However for external volumes like USB sticks and memory > cards (and even external hard drives) this does not make sense, since > usually the reason for deleting files is because you have backed up > the "temporary" storage (photos, videos, files, etc) and now you need > to delete the redundant copy to make more space on the volume. In this > case there should always be a "delete" option in nautilus to delete > the files right away. > > In my opinion the current behavior doesn't make all that much sense to > me - the expectation is that the user is to empty the trash to > permanently delete stored files, but a "persistent" trash doesn't make > sense with the paradigm of removable storage. At least my expectation > always seems to be that each device has it's own trash and must be > emptied separately. It would also seem like an unintended consequence > that if I emptied the "persistent" trash on my machine it would also > empty the trash on each device - there is no granularity or > predictability of what is going to happen. > > Cheers, > > Sam > Hi, This sounds a bit like https://launchpad.net/bugs/12893 Cheers Chris
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