Delete images : send to a Bin/Trash in the catalog?

The "delete" key has now a different behavior in Lightroom, whether one works :
- in a collection (Del removes the photo from the collection & Alt+Del suppresses from the catalog),
- in a dynamic collection (Del does logically nothing and Alt+Del still suppresses from the catalog),
- in a folder or "All photographs" view (Del gives the choice between suppressing from catalog and sending files to system recycle bin, Alt+Del still removes without sending to bin or asking).
This is a bit confusing, especially in the Develop module where it is not trivial to see if you work on a collection or a folder.
Does "delete" mean changing some image classification (removing from collection) or changing the contents of the catalog and/or the file system (removing from catalog or sending to trash), with the optional choice to break the sync between catalog and file system (removing from catalog without sending to bin)?
Suggestion :
- why not use the Del key to send the images in a Catalog Bin (or Trash or whatever you want), which would make them disappear from all catalog views and collections and move them to this bin,
- and remap the "remove from collection" command to something else like Shift-X (close enough to the X="set as rejected" command), because removing from a collection doesn't really delete anything (the photo is still in the catalog or other collections, it's only an organizational change).
The bin could be accessed by another item in the "Catalog" panel, where it would be at least possible to rescue files ie to send them back where they belonged in the catalog.
A special command "empty trash" would really send files to the system bin, with a confirm dialog.
Optionally, it could still be possible to remove photos from the catalog without sending the files to the system bin (but for me, I just don't like breaking sync between file system and catalog).
This behaviour would then be constant across Lightroom.
NB this suggestion has been elaborated collectively - if you read french, see http://www.chassimages.com/forum/index.php/topic,40791.msg665095.html#msg665095 and the surrounding discussion for more details.

Great idea.

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Hi Fresherss,
Your del is Local Variable, it can't be accessed out of the if statement. you need to declare it as global variable like below. And if you want to collect the string, you could use the List to collect, not a string. the string will be split to chars
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