Re: Feature requests: use Monitor colour profile, and deleting directories...

Alan Horkan wrote:

[extra quoting removed]

> Closed as duplicate of #1439244
> [ 1439244 ] delete directory function
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1439244&group_id=4050&atid=354050
> 
>>From the looks of it there is a delete directory/folder* feature but we've
> not noticed it and it doesn't behave exactly as you might expect.  I am

The delete folder feature is only 3 hours old (as of this writing), I had 
just updated that feature request with the patch before closing it. Prior 
to this there was no way to find the feature as it did not exist.

I do not understand the comment about 'behaving as you would expect'.

> always at great pains to remind developers that features need to
> discoverable and including things in the context menu should only be an
> optional extra, as it has both usability and accessibility issues.

Well, right now the folder context menu contains 4 functions that can not 
be easily done in another way by the user, for 3 of those it is the only 
method of activation.

> I prefer to delete to the Trash/Recycle Bin but then inevitably you will
> get people asking for a "Direct Delete" option so they can more
> efficiently shoot themselves in the foot.  I can sort of understand the
> reluctance to add easy ways to delete folders.  Having said that if I
> could do a little more file management in GQView I might never use
> Nautilus again.

The first problem is that GQview does not follow the trash standard (is 
there an official one? the one at freedesktop.org appears different than 
what I see nautilus doing). You can set it to ~/.Trash but that's not the 
default as I do not want GQview to compete with/clobber the user's standard 
trash mechanism.

The second problem is that not everyone will be running a trash aware 
desktop, so it will need to stay off by default even if it was standards 
compliant (GQview has no way of retrieving things from it's trash via GUI).

> * Folder is the recommended term in Gnome, for what it is worth and if I

GQview uses 'folder' everywhere (if not, it's a bug).

> had admin access (hint, hint, nudge, nudge) I would probably make sure
> both terms directory and folder were included in the request summary in
> the hope of reducing duplicate requests.  (John, feel free to give me
> admin rights in the request tracker. ;)

Well, I fixed the summary but it sure would be much easier if the tracker 
had a way of marking one bug a duplicate of another (and anyone monitoring 
the duplicate bug was then updated with the original bug too).

Greetings,
John

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