Trash, Delete, Shred

David Hugh-Jones hughjonesd at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jun 28 02:15:56 BST 2003


Hi Konqueror developers

I'm working on a patch to help remove clutter from right-click menus and
would welcome your opinions.

The patch replaces the 3 actions "Trash", "Delete" and "Shred" with a
single "Delete" action. This is then configurable in the kcm_konq
module. I have in mind something like this:

-- Deleting local files --
(o) move to trash
( ) delete
   [x] shred after delete [only enabled when delete from hd is selected]

[x] confirm before deleting files

Remote files will be deleted without moving to the trash, even if move
to trash is selected.

Comments would be welcome. One point to note is whether shift+DEL should
do pure delete, ctrl+DEL do shred etc. I am against that because I think
that it is probably rather easy to do it by accident. You have "move to
trash" on and "confirm" off; you mean to hit DEL and accidentally hit
shift+DEL: then your files are really deleted without confirmation. But
if a lot of people use this feature, we could keep it and auto-enable
confirmations.

David H-J



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