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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Old suggestion for a different trash can
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-19 20:38:19
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On Wednesday 19 December 2001 08:23 am, Manuel Arriaga wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Only recently did I recall a post I once did to this mailing list about
> basing KDE's trash can on libtrash
> (http://www.m-arriaga.net/software/libtrash). Back then, Carsten  thought
> it might be a good idea to include it with KDE 3, but I fear that it might
> be a bit late for that now.
> (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=99749555022692&w=2).
>
> Some possible advantages over the current (2.2) trash can:
>
> - supports the archival of multiple "deleted" files with the same name;
> - works with konsole (i.e., 'rm'ing files in konsole doesn't cause their
> permanent loss);
> - works with all non-KDE apps (both console and GUI-based);
> - it can be extensively configured.

Sounds good. It should be noted though that just setting LD_PRELOAD is not an 
option since that typically breaks a handfull of applications. (We tried it 
with startup notification) So for a shell you would need something like:
	alias rm='LD_PRELOAD=libtrash.so rm'

Cheers,
Waldo
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