Comment 92 for bug 95853

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : Re: Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus

When an interface makes something too easy to do, it often causes arguments like this one. One group of people gets frustrated that they keep doing the thing by mistake. And another group of people -- for whom "too easy" seems like an oxymoron -- can't believe that the first group are making the mistake, so they resort to unhelpful insults. (I know this because I was once in the second group, arguing against people who complained that Mozilla's Ctrl+Enter keyboard combo made it too easy to send an e-mail message by mistake.)

Adding a confirmation alert is one way to make something more difficult to do, but it is the most crass way. A much simpler solution would be to change the keyboard combo for sending something to the trash, so that it requires two keys rather than one.