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 -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
