Re: Searching for trash folders

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 01:12, William Lachance wrote:
> Just wondering if someone could give me a sanity check on this.
> It seems as if the code in
> libnautilus-private/nautilus-trash-directory.c looks through the
> filesystem for an _entire_volume_ for a suitable trash folder.
> Furthermore, it pops up a confusing dialog (after a suitable delay)
> which says "Nautilus is searching your disks for trash folders."
> 
> This message might provide some context:
> https://listman.redhat.com/archives/phoebe-list/2003-January/msg00369.html
> 
> As well as this bugzilla entry:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46213
> 
> This behaviour causes problems on our system, where a user might browse
> a remote nfs filesystem using amd. In this case, there are few or no
> shares where the user has permission to write and the time needed to
> search these shares is relatively high.
> 
> There does seem to be a patch in RH 7.3 to remove the "Nautilus is
> searching for trash folders" dialog (which somehow never made its way up
> to HEAD, I guess). The async directory searching thing is in every
> version of Nautilus I've looked at.
> 
> Would it be possible/sane to change the trash-directory code to work as
> Havoc suggests, and remove the code that brings up the dialog?
> 
> Let me know, and I'll cook up a patch.

The trash system is a bit sucky, and could use a total rethink i think.
However, I think merging the rh change at least would make it better
than what we have now.

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