Re: How to get trashed file path after "g_file_trash" ?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 10:18 +0100, Amos Brocco wrote:
> >  Not sure what would happen
> > if you trashed two files of the same name from the same directory
> > though, having to deal with the edge cases of the "_filename.2",
> > "_filename.3" with the same original path if you're thinking about
> > going that way though. 
> 
> By having GFile updating the uri/path information after g_file_trash it
> wouldn't be difficult. For the undo I keep track of the "old uri", "new
> uri" and the operation (copy, move, trash, etc.); if g_file_get_uri
> returns the updated path (in the trash) I could just use the "orig-path"
> attribute to get the original file.

GFiles are immutable identifies, similare to a pathname string. This
proposal is similar to having trash_file(char *filename) change the
value of filename to the new location. It just doesn't work.

I realize this is a problem for the undo operation though. I'm not sure
what the best way to solve that is though. The result of trashing a file
is dependent on the platform, and i'm not sure you can always find the
target file after doing a trash operation (would have to check those
apis). 

In the case of unix, the exact uri this would have in the trash:
location is kinda hard to recreate inside gio as how trash: uris are
encoded is defined by the trash backend and can change. It would be
possible to somehow return the GFile for the on-disk location though.