Comment 47 for bug 95853

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Diego Moya (turingt) wrote : Re: Add an option to get a confirmation dialog before deleting files in Nautilus

For those advocating a dialog confirmation, here's a relevant article from a usability professional, explaining why confirmation dialogs don't work in general as a way to protect user data:

Never use a warning when you mean Undo
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning

I think this is the central point in the linked article:
"interfaces that don’t respect habituation are very bad"