Re: Deactivating the Trash

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno gio, 08/09/2005 alle 18.42 -0300, Matthew Thomas ha scritto:
> On 5 Sep, 2005, at 4:42 AM, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:46 -0300, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > ...
> >>         Automatically delete items from the Trash:
> >>         [ Never            :^]
> > ...
> > Yeah. This seems like a good idea.
> 
> Now in Bugzilla <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315022>.
> 
> > Perhaps we should also somehow notice when disks are near full and the  
> > trash is large and auto-clean it?
> > ...
> 
> That would be a separate feature, though it would alter the interface  
> for deleting old items a bit: the "Never" option above would be  
> replaced by a checkbox, to be parallel with the option for deleting  
> when nearly full.
> 
>      Automatically delete old items from the Trash:
>      [/] [after 1 month   :^]
>      [/] when a disk has less than [  100 MB]H free
> 
> However, there would be a few problems with doing this. First, it would  
> be hard to come up with a meaningful way of specifying a threshold that  
> worked for volumes of wildly varying sizes (hard disks, USB keys,  
> floppy disks, etc).

Disk quotas!!! The real annoying stuff at university terminals :-(