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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Enhance Trash can functionality
From:       Con Hennessy <Con () OrcaOffice ! com>
Date:       2004-01-12 20:08:21
Message-ID: 200401122008.21943.Con () OrcaOffice ! com
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On Monday 12 January 2004 17:25, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:41, Jonathan Hunt wrote:
> > I wrote quite awhile back about improving the functionality of the trash
> > can in KDE (allowing multiple files of the same name, restoring files
> > etc). After a few emails I decide that in the interests of compatibilty
> > (ie with GNOME project etc) the underlying library would need to be
> > written in C. I have finally gotten enough time together to complete
> > this.
> > For those who are interested you can find my project at
> > http://tra.sourceforge.net . There you can download a copy of the GPL
>
> cool.. i've grabbed the source and will look at it later, hopefully with
> some feedback...
>
> > I just wanted to check my plan of attack is the "KDE" way. I plan to
> > write a trashbin io slave so that files in the trash can be viewed etc
> > thru konqueror. Then I need to change konqueror so that the move to trash
> > command run "tra" instead of move. Presumbably this is a very basic
> > change.
>
> yes... but instead of having it run the command, have it use trash:/ (which
> then seperates it from the implementation detail of what is actually behind
> it and makes it usable elsewhere as an ioslave) ...
>
> > But then is it possible to make konqueror's right click menu (or action
> > menu) context sensitive. I notice it is for devices (ie right click on
> > shortcut to CDROM and u have the mount and unmount options).
>
> if the trash is actually in a hidden dir then we can supply an icon that
> links to trash:/ ... as for making the .trash dir have appropriate context
> menu Action entries, you can put servicemenus directly in
> ~/.trash/.directory and they'll show up...

Is this something that should really be agreed with freedesktop.org so that it 
can be easily shared with GNOME, and others ?

CPH
 
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