On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 04:50:30PM +1000, Dave Martin wrote: > Folks > > I raised a bug in bugzilla (584704) about Rhythmbox's behaviour when > deleting files from external devices. There seem to have been a few > similar bugs raised over a fairly long period but no definitive answer > has been found. I'd like to put out a possible solution to the list and > see what everyone thinks. > > ... > > Can I propose the following - For the main library, supply the usual two > options - move to trash and remove. For all external devices provide > only one option "remove from device". This would physically remove the > file from the device. I can see no use in having a recycle bin on an > external mp3 player. You could maybe make an argument about having one > on an external hard drive but those don't generally appear as a device > in rhythmbox anyway. There is no need for a remove option to remove from > the library as external devices aren't part of the main library anyway.
This sounds about right to me. The generic 'Remove' menu item is a bit of a problem like this - its effects range from removing an entry from a playlist through removing a podcast subscription up to deleting a file, all with the same name. This is the main reason there's no shortcut key for it, too. Trash seems pretty useless on media player devices. I think it's safe to assume that the files on the device are a subset of the library, so they can be replaced by copying from the library rather than restoring from the trash directory. _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list rhythmbox-devel@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
