AFAIR the old gnome-vfs code did have a notion of local/remote file systems. For example nautilus was able to tell which file systems were local and thumbnails were only created on those.
Laca On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:39 +0100, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > Glynn, > > What do you have in mind here? > > Is it a GConf key that controls whether trash on non-local file systems > should be searched? > What is the definition of a non-local file system? > > Padraig > > Glynn Foster wrote: > > > > On 26/06/2008, at 6:58 PM, Padraig O'Briain wrote: > > > >> Standard GNOME supports the concept of a Trash directory on every > >> filesystem. > >> > >> In JDS we only support Trash in user's home directory. I regarded my > >> change as ensuring that happens which is why I classified it as a > >> feature. > >> > >> There is a bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525779 which > >> may be related. > >> But even, if that bug were fixed we should not be looking for Trash > >> directory in other filesystems. > > > > Could we get some implementation upstream that allows people/sys > > admins to be able to configure whether the trash should search > > non-local file-systems? If we could at least get that upstream, it > > would make maintaining a patch almost trivial - I can't think why that > > wouldn't be accepted. > > > > > > Glynn
