Re: Ugly trash behaviour

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 17:49 +0200, Olaf Frączyk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I put some files to trash an ".Trash-olaf" folder is created in the
> directory where the deleted file was oryginally placed.
> This is a terrible behaviour. Is there any option to have the trash
> folder in user's home directory only? Or in some other (admin/user
> defined) place? I don't want to have user trash directories scattered on
> the whole filesystem.
> 
> I use nautilus 2.6.0. I'd like to know if this issue is still present in
> 2.8.xx?

Placing it in the home directory doesn't work well if the file is on
another filesystem, that is why we use a folder per mount for trash.
This is still true of 2.8. There has been discussions on xdg-list about
a new common spec for handling trash that gnome eventually will move to,
but it does this too.

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