Comment 56 for bug 95853

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Holger Berndt (berndth) wrote : Re: Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus

@kikl: Completely unrelated to whether it's a good idea to get undo dialogs/bars on moving to trash or not, Nautilus's trash display does indeed have poor usability. No deletion date grouping, sorting or even displaying. Also, one can't really know where the files are going to be restored to. That makes it hard to navigate or even use the trash, especially when it hasn't been emptied in a while. Also, even with "clean" trashes, there's no way to distinguish several files with identical names etc.

I put together a small Python application to have a better view of the trash (Screenshot: http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/5161/bildschirmfoto1t.png). Gnome's base libraries make that pretty easy. Maybe it'd be good to have such a display in Nautilus, or maybe even standalone started from the trash applet. Anyways, although trash usability is clearly related, this seems to be orthogonal to this very bug report.