Xfce4 and KDE trash

[edscott wilson garcia]

Ah, your description is very precise and leaves everything clear.
The problem here is that KDE is translating the folder name where it
keeps the trash. The C locale trashcan is at ~/Desktop/Trash, but in
your French locale it is translated to ~/Desktop/Corbeille. If you
create a symlink ~/Desktop/Trash -> ~/Desktop/Corbeille, you should see
the KDE trashbin appear as another wastebasket in the xffm main trash
bin (although the icon is a folder, to indicate it is not an xffm
created wastebasket). From there you should be able to treat it as an
xffm wastebasket.

Xffm always uses C locale for the actual path of wastebaskets
(i.e., ..Wastebasket), and translates just for the GUI. KDE's approach,
as I understand from your post, is of translating the actual path where
trash is saved. This will create trashbins for each locale you use
(people separate real trash into organic/inorganic, maybe separating
computer trash into English/French has some utility...)  
If might want to submit a bug report for xffm on
http://bugzilla.xfce.org describing the problem.


El lun, 06-06-2005 a las 00:37 +0200, Eddy escribió:
> edscott wilson garcia a écrit le 05/06/05 17:31 :
> > El dom, 05-06-2005 a las 13:07 +0200, Eddy escribió:
> > 
> > Not exactly sure what you mean. KDE trash is collected by KDE konqueror
> > in a single folder. Xffm will not collect files to the KDE trash folder
> > but will instead put trash in wastebaskets located where the trash is
> > generated. The main trashcan branch is a database which keeps tabs of
> > all these wastebaskets and allows for centralized management. 
> > 
> > What the documentation refers to is that the KDE trash bin (which is
> > just a single folder can also be viewed from the main trash branch as
> > just another wastebasket. So you can see and recover whatever you have
> > deleted with konqueror from within xffm.
> 
> Well, I wasn't exactly sure what I meant either :-)
> 
> Suppose I have two files - called "thisfile" and "thatfile" - in two 
> directories - called "thisdir" and "thatdir" respectively.
> 
> If I use Xffm to throw these files away, they are moved to 
> thisdir/..Wastebasket/thisfile and thatdir/..Wastebasket/thatfile 
> respectively.
> 
> When I go to the main trashcan in Xffm, I can't see these files unless I 
> have collected the trashcans (which can be done automatically). Once 
> collected, I'll be able to see them from the main trashcan (even though 
> they'll still be in their respective ..Wastebasket) and I will be able 
> to delete them permanently from that main trashcan.
> 
> Now suppose I have another file in my KDE trashcan : let's call it
> ~/Desktop/Corbeille/thatotherfile (my kde speaks French). It has not 
> been put there by Xffm but by KDE itself or by whatever script I've made.
> 
> I'd like to be able to go to the Xffm main trash, collect the 
> wastebaskets and see that thatotherfile appear listed in the main trash 
> so that the main trash would list thisfile, thatfile and thatotherfile.
> 
> Unfortunately it does not : as far as Xffm is concerned, 
> ~/Desktop/Corbeille is just any ordinary directory and its content is 
> not listed in the main trashcan database.
> I would like to be able to tell Xffm that a certain directory (in this 
> case ~/Desktop/Corbeille/) is not an ordinary directory but one the 
> content of which is to be included in the trashcan database.
> 	
> Isn't that possible ? Well I wish it would be. Anyway that's what I 
> understood when I read
>  > What the documentation refers to is that the KDE trash bin (which is
>  > just a single folder can also be viewed from the main trash branch as
>  > just another wastebasket. So you can see and recover whatever you have
>  > deleted with konqueror from within xffm.
> 
> Muchas gracias para su respuesta.
> 
> PS
> I use XFCE 4 from the Debian testing (Sarge) repository.
> 
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edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org>