File deletion in konqueror

[uwe]

Somewhen around version 3.3 or so, konqueror as a filemanager lost the option to delete files right away. You have to move them to Trash first. Like other people used to "rm -rf *", I really mean delete when I say delete.

Fortunately, there is at least a non-GUI way to regain this option. Open ~/.kde/share/config/konquerorrc in your favourite editor. Add the line
ShowDeleteCommand=true
in the section labeled:
[FMSettings]

Restart konqueror and there you go!

I don't know whether this "trick" will survive the 3.x series of KDE. The usability people are completely opposed to direct deletion.

[riaan]

Dear KDE users

For those of you daunted by editing rc-files in your .kde directory, there is another way to get file deletion back in the Konqueror file menu:

Open the KDE "Control Centre", go to the "KDE Components" section and open "File Manager".

Click on the "Behavior" tab and tick the option titled
"Show 'Delete' context menu entries which bypass the trashcan" and voila!

Another question to our KDE expert. Old versions (< 3.x.x, I think) of KDE also had a "Shred" option to overwrite the file with zeros or something. Did that one disappear entirely?

Regards
Riaan

[lancelot]

Thanks a lot for that tip. I had a probem once when I wanted to delete a huge folder and I couldn't do it at once as some disk space error came up. So i had to delete it in chunks. Since then I had always wondered how one could  go around "moving the files to trash" when performing a delete operation.

Cheers!