Xfce4 and KDE trash

[edscott wilson garcia]

El lun, 06-06-2005 a las 00:54 +0200, Eddy escribió:
> Eddy a écrit le 06/06/05 00:37 :
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> PPS
> I have just created the ~/Desktop/Trash directory and put a file in it.
> When I collected trashcans that file was collected as well.
> The problem seems to be a language one : my KDE trash is called 
> Corbeille instead of Trash and it's not my fault but KDE's; it's been 
> like that ever since I started using KDE years ago.
> Now I know how to change that in KDE but wouldn't it be great if it 
> could be done the other way round, if Xffm could be told that whatever 
> directory one chose is to be considered a wastebasket ?

Yes, definitely. Please submit a bug report with the issue. Currently
there is much work being done to xffm and the bug report would ensure
that the issue gets resolved before the next release.

regards,


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edscott wilson garcia <edscott at xfce.org>