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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Enhanced Trash functionality
From:       Henrique Pinto <stampede () uai ! com ! br>
Date:       2003-11-22 16:11:14
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Hi!

Your idea is wonderful. I suggest you that, when you have it ready, submit 
it to freedesktop.org, it might be nice to share the trash among different 
DEs.

I believe someone was working on a trash ioslave, but I'm not sure.

On Saturday 22 November 2003 10:55, Jonathan Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of the things I really like about MS Windows is it's recycle bin.
> Konqeror under Linux has something similar but it seems much more
> limited. It cannot do things like hold more than 1 file that has the
> same name (without renaming) or remember where a file came from and
> restore it.
> I am a uni student currently on holiday. I am considering spending some
> time writing an improved trash bin for linux. The reason I am not going
> with something like libtrash
> (http://www.gnu.org/directory/libs/libtrash.html) is because it doesn't
> seem to solve this problem of having multiple files with the same name
> and a user friendly restore etc. and also it intercepts all attempts to
> remove a file - not just "Trash" in Konqeror etc.
> Anyways I was planning on writing a C++ terminal application (named tra
> for lack of a better name) using a standalone library libtra that would
> allow one to us tra just like rm only it would move files to the trash
> bin (probably make it ~/.Trash). But it would rename the files to be
> numbered 0, 1 etc. and keep an entry in a database file about date
> deleted, original name etc. so that tra could have a restore option
> where u type the name of a file and it goes thru its DB and finds it
> etc. I would write this using fairly common C++ (no Qt etc.) and a
> common database library (suggestions here??). Most of the work would be
> done by libtra so that it can easily be called by other applications
> etc.
> KDE comes into it because after I had done this I would like to
> incorporate it into Konqeuror (Trash function) etc. and also write
> either a plugin to konqeror or a standalone KDE app that would run when
> u click on the Trash bin that would be similar in functionality to MS
> Recycle Bin this would use the libtra library.
> So I am writing to see how interested KDE project would be in something
> like this, if there is already a similar effort underway and also for
> suggestions of a Database library to use that is fast and stable and
> common on POSIX platforms (or at least portable across them).
>
> Appreciate your time,
> Jonny

- -- 
	Henrique Pinto
	stampede@uai.com.br
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