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(Get the code!)
Gosh, this thread got ugly, with the "windoze" bashing and calling people "imbeciles", over a feature that is:
a) easily solved (I went back and forth between looking for solutions on the internet, and essentially rewriting most of the code GG wrote in a patch more than 7 years ago, before noticing that he did it).
b) would inconvenience NOBODY (it would be an option, turned OFF by default, so the default behavior wouldn't change)
c) ... in an application that isn't exactly overflowing with user options
d) ... and would have effectively no additional performance overhead (we're calling one user setting, one branch operation, and MAYBE a hundred bytes of memory - if this is what we're calling bloat, give me a break kids).
e) and when you find yourself on a strange, annoying or poorly laid out keyboard, becomes VERY important.
I truly can't believe this community sometimes. Because credentials and history seems to matter to some people, I've been using Linux AND Windows for over 15 years (each). I am comfortable in both - though more comfortable on the command line, where things can't accidentally end up in the trash by hitting a delete key that is too close to an enter key. I spend most of my time developing code in Linux, and then using Windows for anything "productive" that I want to do - i.e. anything other than develop code on the command line. Why? Because in a modern operating system - one that wants its users to know what's going on, and prevent things like accidental data loss if the wrong key is pressed - these aren't issues. And I'm a user who knows what I'm doing - I can only imagine the user that is relatively new to Linux.
The arguments - 'OMG do we need a dialog box for copies? moves? drags?' Sure, if those can be done by one errant keypress. If move-to-trash became a ctrl+whatever combo instead of a single key, this whole topic would be moot.
Did I spend 20 minutes having to fish things out of the trash because of it tonight? Yes. Could I have possibly, irreparably, lost data if I hadn't noticed? Absolutely.
If these are the sort of things that generate ridicule, then it's time to stop trying to entice "ordinary users" (you know, the OSX and Windoze folks everyone seems to revile) from ever using Ubuntu. Or to stop making Gnome/Nautilus the default file browser.