Konqueror delete unification

Koos Vriezen koos.vriezen at xs4all.nl
Mon Jul 14 17:12:08 BST 2003


On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:

> After this very thorough review, and a review of my own habits (on KDE 3.1), I
> believe the distinction between "Move to Trash" and "Delete" is very
> important and should be maintained.  I simply needs both capabilities, and
> a "streamlined" interface could only make it simply more clumsy and
> confusing.

Thanks! I agree with this.

> I *don't* like the idea of discriminating if a local file is on this or that
> partition.  It really isn't much a concern for me.  I *do* like the idea of
> employing a file size limit prior to moving a file to trash -- e.g. "Warn me
> when moving large files to trash  __ MB"  A 'sane' default limit, like 25MB,
> might be used.

Your 25Mb limit just indicates that current trash impl. is flawed,
because copying can take long times (eats system disk cache too, making
system slower afterwards)

Koos




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