On Wednesday 09 September 2009 17:02:22 Duncan wrote: > FWIW, I just configured kde3 (and now kde4) to map the delete key to > actual delete, with a prompt, killed the keyboard shortcut mapping for > trash, and turned on the delete menu item that's normally hidden. I'd > have turned off the move to trash menu item if I could, but that wasn't > configurable. > > I kept the prompt on for both delete and move to trash. For delete, the > confirmation was enough, and I left it on for trash, so in case I > actually hit trash instead of delete on the context menu, I'd get a > warning and could cancel, then actually delete. > > On kde4, I'm happy to note, I was able to configure it for zero items/ > size. =:^) I've not actually tested that it works and doesn't even save > the last deleted item, but that's what it says I have configured it > for, at least. If I'm deleting, I want to recover the space, not have it > go into some weird half-deleted but not really deleted state, where it's > still in the trash and the disk space doesn't change. So I'm happy > that's finally possible in kde4! =:^). (FWIW, yes, I know deleted items > can often be recovered using undelete or disk editing utilities, I just > want it deleted, and the space recovered.) > With today's large disks space is rarely an issue. What _is_ an issue is that our memories become less reliable as we get older. I use Delete if I'm absolutely sure I want rid of it, but otherwise I use Trash. I feel reasonably confident that if I haven't needed it 7 days later I'm not going to need it again, and it will be automatically deleted. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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