Re: Weird code in nautilus-file-get-internal(...) of nautilus-file.c

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:02 +0100, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
> In my efforts to get Trash properties on the desktop to work I came 
> across the following snippet in nautilus-file-get-internal(...)
> 
> <snip>
> if (self_owned && directory != NULL) {
> 	file_name = nautilus_directory_get_name_for_self_as_new_file (directory);
> 	relative_uri = gnome_vfs_escape_string (file_name);
> 	g_free (file_name);
> } else if (eel_uri_is_desktop (uri)) {
> </snip>
> 
> The if statement is true for among others if you pass as uri "trash:" to 
> nautilus_file_get_internal. directory then is a nautilus_directory 
> object containing the trash directory. In that case
> nautilus_directory_get_name_for_self_as_new_file then
> returns g_strdup(_("Trash")). This seems a bit a weird to me, why would 
> relative_uri need to change depending on your locale. Wouldn't a 
> nautilus_directory_get_uri be more appropriate here.
> I made the change and didn't see any difference in the behavior of 
> nautilus, but I thought I just let you know, because there might be a 
> bug here which I do not understand.
> 
> Jaap
> 
> BTW nautilus_directory_get_name_for_self_as_new_file is only used in the 
> above snippet of nautilus.

It does seem a bit strange, yes. Its probably not really right. However,
i don't think it'll actually affect much. Maybe we should add a fixme in
the code though.


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