[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Voting has closed. We have a winner! [WAS: Wastebasket/Deleted Items]

[Sridhar Dhanapalan]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 01:27, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at tiscali.co.uk> 
wrote:
> Matt Sicker wrote:
> > Deleting not
> > actually deleting seems to be an invention of the GUI world (don't know
> > if it was Windows, Mac OS, or someone else who did it first, but I hate
> > them for it).
>
> I disagree. For most normal purposes, shredding the space that a file
> used is overkill. If you want to completely erase a file, there are
> enough tools to do it, but normal deleting is sufficient to free up
> space, and doubtless much faster.

I think Matt was saying that in some GUIs 'Delete' just moves the file to 
another part of the disc (a 'Wastebasket' area), rather than actually 
deleting the file.

KDE and GNOME use 'Delete' in its correct sense, and the 'Move to Wastebasket' 
option is the default action for the delete key.

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