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List:       freedesktop-xdg
Subject:    Re: Enhanced Trash functionality
From:       p.carsten () arcor ! de
Date:       2003-11-28 18:17:20
Message-ID: 2102039.1070043440827.JavaMail.ngmail () webmail04 ! arcor-online ! net
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> > Is anyone currently working on such a draft ?

Looking into libtrash[1] already in it's version 2.1 it has nice docs that clearly \
state it *does* enumerate mulitple deletions of the same filename and much more. Even \
if it had not been implemented yet IMHO it would have been best do just implement \
there.

If an app like konqueror really needs to delete something for good it is possible to \
have "delete" excpicitly circumvent libtrash. Which IMHO is a bad idea though, \
because it is easy to get into the habbit of regularly using the "real" delete. \
Better have all normal delete requests intercepted by libtrash however maybe provide \
an extra more exlicit "wipe out" or similar in konqueror if desired.

Through the preload systemcall interception libtrash is a true catch all solution \
which does not depend on trash-aware apps (or yet another API). And it is ready to \
work with all filesystems.

Think it is very well suited for now, and for filesystems that do not have proper \
undelete.

-Peter


[1] http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash


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