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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When an interface makes something too easy to do, it often causes
arguments like this one. One group of people gets frustrated that they
keep doing the thing by mistake. And another group of people -- for whom
"too easy" seems like an oxymoron -- can't believe that the first group
are making the mistake, so they resort to unhelpful insults. (I know
this because I was once in the second group, arguing against people who
complained that Mozilla's Ctrl+Enter keyboard combo made it too easy to
send an e-mail message by mistake.)

Adding a confirmation alert is one way to make something more difficult
to do, but it is the most crass way. A much simpler solution would be to
change the keyboard combo for sending something to the trash, so that it
requires two keys rather than one.

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Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95853
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