[Thunar-dev] overwriting files and the trash

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:41:16 +0000 (UTC), Danny Milosavljevic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 17:57:28 +0100, Erlend Davidson wrote:
> 
> > On 2 Aug 2006, at 17:37, Rodrigo Coacci 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 ;)
> 
> I second that.

I wouldn't say moving overwritten files to the trash is the expected
behaviour. After all, that's why the "Are you sure you want to
overwrite this file?" message pops up when you try to replace one file
with another.

So I don't think this should be implemented, not even as an option.

- Jannis