[Thunar-dev] Trash script

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Wed Feb 22 05:32:32 CET 2006


Stefan Stuhr wrote:
> If Thunar only will support ~/.Trash/ as trash folder, then the trash
> shouldn't be used for files on removable media. Besides that, ~/.Trash/
> is definitely better than no trash at all.

I keep hearing that -- but I don't believe it. A broken trash 
implementation is just going to result in Benny being flooded with 
unnecessary bug reports. No trash is better than broken trash.

Users have a certain expectation of how trash works. If it doesn't work 
that way, they are going to crib.

For example, if a user uses Thunar to delete 10GB of isos in his 100GB 
/movies partition, he really won't like it when his 10GB /home suddenly 
fills up.

Benny -- stick to an action script for trash until you can implement the 
full trash spec.

My 2c,

-- b



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