Samuel Verstraete wrote: >>>>First: I was wondering if the expected behaviour of overwriting >>>>files would be to store the "overwritten" file in the trash... i >>>>certainly was expecting this but it might be just me ;) >>> >>>You mean if you edit a file called myfile the old (unedited) >>>version is stored as myfile~... but you're saying you want the >>>myfile~ to be in the trash? >> >>I guess it isn't what he means, even because any FM could be able to >>do that... It should be resposability of the editor (or whatever app >>you are using) to do it. >>I guess what he meant was when you copy/move a file over another >>(using Thunar), effectively overwriting it, it could get the >>to-be-overwritten file and put it in trash before overwriting it. >>But I don't really think this is reasonable... And for big files, >>could create a big performance issue, not to tell about disk space.... > > that's exactly what i mean... copying/moving a file from one folder to > another folder in which a file with the same name exists... > i don't see the performance issue.... after all you're not physically > (or electronically) moving the files... You just say this one is trash > and this one is in /home/user... > anyway it was just an idea... wasn't really sure what to expect
File a feature request. > S Benedikt _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
