Will symlinking fix trash bugs? (Was Re: Please can we get a consistent desktop neutral trash behaviour.)

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:03:10 +0200, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:43 +1000, Lex Hider wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:46:05 +0100 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>  
> > wrote:

> > > > >From what I could understand, the answer was that gnome isn't  
> > compatible
> > > > with the freedesktop trash spec.

> > Is the solution as simple as these 3 steps?
> > 1) Identify which gnome apps can delete files.
> > 2) Port the relevant deletion code from gnome-vfs to gio.
> > 3) Intelligently migrate .Trash/ to .local/
>
> That should work, yes.
> Making current gnome (w/ gnome-vfs) use the new trash spec is a rather
> large change, since the trash code is rather spread out over the code

What about symlinks? I've just symlinked ~/.Trash to another folder and   
successfully
tested nautilus' trash functionality.
We could make a helper application run once and move the contents of  
~/.Trash to
~/.local/share/Trash and then create a symlink. This will

(a) maintain compability with old apps
(b) create a freedesktop.org compatible trashing system at the same time
(c) not require any changes to nautilus or gnome-vfs (nor gvfs)

Then again distros could do this with scripts in software packages of  
their preferred
packaging system.
They could also remove the ~/.Trash symlink when gnome-vfs is replaced by  
gvfs.

Regards

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Christian Kirbach
Christian Kirbach googlemail com