Konqueror delete unification

[Koos Vriezen]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Jos van den Oever wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 July 2003 20:37, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > Yes, something like this would make trash much more usefull for me. One
> > thing though is that it does alter directories. One thing that comes up is
> > cvs checkouts, every .cvsignore should have a *.to_be_deleted entry. No
> > doubt other tools could have problems as well..
>
> Shouldn't CVS ignore all .* files? What about e.g. .xvpics or other thumbnail
> directories?

Indeed we mess up directories already :-). No, I alway see '? .xxxx.swp'
with cvs.

> A trash implementation like this would benefit from support that's wider that
> just KDE. What's the GNOME way of handling the trash? A linux/unix wide trash
> consensus would be nice, but I don't think it's attainable.
>
> Especially for removable media, this type of trash is very easy. I've
> experience with it on old macs. If you'd insert a floppy with a deleted file,
> you're trash would suddenly be filled and you'd know that a deleted file was
> on the floppy.
> It would be very nice if this feature would work on GNOME too. When emptying
> the trash, one might add a dialog to empty the trash per partition. It might
> however, confuse the user.

This all sound very attractive to me. It's fast, no need to check file (or
directory ugh) sizes.

Thanks,

Koos