Decision needed for "Move to Trash"

[Mathias Panzenböck]

On 01/19/2010 02:22 PM, Mark Kretschmann wrote:
> Ahoy,
> 
> Louis Bayle has made a Merge Request for adding a "Move to Trash"
> feature to the playlist context menu. It would be nice if we could
> decide on this before string freeze. Please have a look here and
> comment:
> 
> http://gitorious.org/amarok/amarok/merge_requests/102
> 

I hope no one minds that I say something to this topic (after all I only rewrote
podcast feed parsing and am not really an active developer currently):

I don't like the idea of a delete file option in the context menu of the
playlist. I don't know any other music player that has such an option (ok, I
don't know that many; only winamp, vlc, quicktime and a few others). And I think
such an option is a bit dangerous. I would not expect it to be there. I can
imagine if I wouldn't know this discussion and this menu item would suddenly
appear in a new version without "warning", the next time I wanted to remove a
song from the playlist I might accidentally delete it instead because I only
skim through the menu items and do not really read them (after all, I would
think I know which items there are).

On the other hand, I often wanted to know where a given song is located in the
filesystem so I can then navigate there with dolphin in order to do something
with it (e.g. copy it to another computer per sftp kio-slave). For that I have
now to look into the track details and then manually navigate to the location. I
think it would be really nice to have an option "show in system file-browser" or
something like that. This option would open a dolphin window (or whatever your
systems filebrowser is) with the file in question selected (like "reveal in
finder" in OS X). In dolphin you can then delete the file if you want. Of course
that option can only be provided for files the are located on a filesystem
accessible through the systems file browser (so things that are only accessible
through a special lib, like I think it's the case for songs on an iPod or http
streams are excluded).

Just my thoughts on this topic.

	-panzi