Re: Deactivating the Trash

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:46 -0300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> So perhaps this could be automated with a single option:
> 
>         Automatically delete items from the Trash:
>         [ Never            :^]
> 
> The menu could contain "Never", "After 1 year", "After 3 months", "After
> 1 month", "After 1 week", "After 1 day", "When I log out", and
> "Immediately". The last option would satisfy Nikolaus's use case.
> 
> This option could replace the "Include a Delete command that bypasses
> Trash" option, so the number of preferences would stay the same.

Yeah. This seems like a good idea. Perhaps we should also somehow notice
when disks are near full and the trash is large and auto-clean it?

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