Konqueror delete unification

[Michael S. Mikowski]

On Tuesday 15 July 2003 21:56, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 02:24, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
> > > > Suppose I am logged in on runlevel 3 (no KDE). How do I find and look
> > > > at the files in my trash?
> > >
> > > ls -a
> > >
> > > Koos
> >
> > I appreciate that people can see hidden files, but my point was that
> > people may want to see all their trashed files in one place.
>
> How often do you want that? Point is making trash very fast, for something
> hardly used.
>
> > I may be wrong about this. I've never worked with a system where trashed
> > files were stored around the system.
>
> Me neither, but as a shell user I think I would find it useful having
> trash in current dir.
>
> Koos

Interesting thoughts.  Might one create a trash directory containing only 
symbolic links to hidden files?

Of course, this again leads to the dreaded "hidden file" kludge which is 
getting very old these days.

Mike

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