Bug#312339: nautilus: Confusing "empty trash" buttons "skip" and "cancel"

[Ambrose Li]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.8.2-2
Severity: normal


(Sorry if the button names are wrong. I am using the zh_TW locale and trying to run nautilus with LANG=C does not work.)

If a "file is in use" or similar error occurs during an "empty trash" operation, nautilus presents a dialog with the error message with the buttons "skip", "cancel", and "retry".

If the user presses "skip", the user would expect nautilus to delete the rest of the files. This is what happens.

If the user presses "cancel", the user would expect nautilus to immediately stop emptying the trash without trying to delete other files. However, this is not the case; nautilus continues to try to delete other files. This means that currently "cancel" and "overwrite" are functionally identical, but nautilus gives a false impression that the user has 3 choices instead of 2.

>From a user's perspective, either the "cancel" option should be fixed, or it should be removed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-ow1
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 (charmap=BIG5)

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  capplets             1:2.8.2-3           configuration applets for GNOME 2 
ii  desktop-file-utils   0.10-1              Utilities for .desktop files
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.17-1            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.8.0-4             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0        0.2.6-6             Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.8.1-2             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.8.1-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                2.3.2.ds1-21        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2            2.8.2-1             Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0              0.2.35-2            Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libexif10            0.6.9-6             library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail-common       1.8.4-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17            1.8.4-1             GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4          2.8.1-5             GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.4.2-2           library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.6.4-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2   2.8.3-2             Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0          2.8.1-2             The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.8.0-1             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.8.1-3             The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.8.4-3             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.6.4-1             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus2-2       2.8.2-2             libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2            1:2.12.2-1          libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.8.1-1             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-5               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.8.1-3             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstartup-notificat 0.8-1               library for program launch feedbac
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxml2              2.6.16-7            GNOME XML library
ii  nautilus-data        2.8.2-2             data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info     0.16-3              FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-12     X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.2-4           compression library - runtime

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