[Thunar-dev] overwriting files and the trash

[Samuel Verstraete]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:37:33 -0300
"Rodrigo Coacci" <rcoacci at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/2/06, Erlend Davidson <E.R.M.Davidson at sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Samuel Verstraete wrote:
> > > Hi Benny,
> > >
> > > 2 small issues...
> > >
> > > First: I was wondering if the expected behaviour of overwriting
> > > files would be to store the "overwritten" file in the trash... i
> > > certainly was expecting this but it might be just me ;)
> > >
> > You mean if you edit a file called myfile the old (unedited)
> > version is stored as myfile~... but you're saying you want the
> > myfile~ to be in the trash?
> >
> 
> I guess it isn't what he means, even because any FM could be able to
> do that... It should be resposability of the editor (or whatever app
> you are using) to do it.
> I guess what he meant was when you copy/move a file over another
> (using Thunar), effectively overwriting it, it could get the
> to-be-overwritten file and put it in trash before overwriting it.
> But I don't really think this is reasonable... And for big files,
> could create a big performance issue, not to tell about disk space....

that's exactly what i mean... copying/moving a file from one folder to
another folder in which a file with the same name exists... 
i don't see the performance issue.... after all you're not physically
(or electronically) moving the files... You just say this one is trash
and this one is in /home/user...
anyway it was just an idea... wasn't really sure what to expect
S

> 
> 
> -- 
> Abraços,
>       Rodrigo
>