Trash can should provide easily reached button to empty trash

Bug #33998 reported by Lakin Wecker
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Wishlist
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Currently, when you open the trash can to review what's in it before deleting the items, there is no easy way to empty the trash:

1) select all files and use the context menu to delete them,
2) select all the files and use the delete key on the keyboard.
3) use the file->empty trash menu item.

Proposal:
provide a nautilus_location_widget_provider which has a button availble to empty the trash. This is similar to the currently implemented "Write to CD" from nautilus-burn.

Here is a proposed patch which solves the problem:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~weckerl/nautilus_patch.html

Note: the patch needs some cleaning up as discussed on the nautilus-mailing list, but because the patch was too late for the gnome-ui freeze it's been put on my back burner.

However, if this patch has a possibility of inclusion into dapper, I'd be willing to make some time to spend on it.

Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your bug. I've read your mail upstream. The change looks good, if you come with a patch judged good by upstream before dapper UI freeze there is no reason to not use it!

Changed in nautilus:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

That upload fixes the bug:

 nautilus (2.17.1-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream version:
     - Empty trash button in trash (Ubuntu: #33998)
     - New menu icons for new document/folder/window
     - Ring buffer for debugging
     - Fix spinner size
     - Open location dialog on desktop defaults to home
     - Remove metadata on external delete events
     - Draw text selection rectangle using cairo
     - Jump to selection on sort order change
     - Fix gsequence crash
     - Freeze icon view while renaming (Ubuntu: #56262)
     - New theming features for icon view
     - New icon in about dialog
     - Handle scroll button while rubberbanding
     - Ellipsize menu button at 16 chars (Ubuntu: #49116)
   * debian/nautilus.install:
     - install the mime file
   * debian/nautilus-data.install:
     - install new icons
   * debian/patches/02_autoconf.patch:
     - updated
   * debian/patches/02_umask.patch:
     - updated version from Debian
   * debian/patches/09_menu_items_change.patch:
     - dropped tooltip changes, they have been reworked upstream
       and upstream version looks correct

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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