[Thunar-dev] overwriting files and the trash

[Erlend Davidson]

On 12 Aug 2006, at 13:57, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:

> 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.
It's not the expected behaviour for us, because expectation comes  
from past experience - no other file managers implement it.  What  
would a new user expect though?  Nothing will ever change if people  
implement what's already been implemented in other applications.
>
> So I don't think this should be implemented, not even as an option.

>
> - Jannis
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