I think the major problem of the TrashCan is that if you delete multiple files with the same name, it wont make a file hierarchy... instead of that it make multiple copies like document1.swd, copy of document1.swd, anothercopyofdocument1.swd etc..
I think this is a poor hack solution by other problem of the trash can that is used to replace the itens with the same name. I was wonder how to resolve this problem... should the trash file manipulation be different from the ext3 filesystem? Is there a way to correct it? 2007/9/17, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It shouldn't wait for the drive to be too full, but rather prompt when the > trash consumes a certain percentage of the drive. I think it would make > sense to keep the "full trash" prompt separate. > > For example, one doesn't take out the trash when his entire house is full > of garbage; he takes out the trash when it is full. The only difference in > this case is that the garbage bin can, theoretically, comfortably expand to > a rather large size. People can bump into trouble with full hard drives > before GNOME kicks in with a "your hard drive is filling up" message. The > reason for this being that the message would have to pop up at a rather > critical point to avoid driving people crazy. On the other hand, it would be > less common but perhaps more helpful, if a report was popped up when a > certain location such as Trash or a certain user's folder, is noticed to > have a proportionally unfair share of the hard drive. > > Sorry, I can't really think how to explain my reasoning properly. (Eeek!). > Hopefully I make sense! > I'm thinking of the difference between procrastinating, leaving all the > cleaning until a critical point, versus having the disk cleaned up > routinely, keeping the drive usage consistently minimal, which would be a > helpful and quiet method causing minimal obstruction. > > Bye, > -Dylan McCall > > On 9/17/07, Jacob Beauregard < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I was reading this article, and stumbled upon this section: > > > > "Now, being familiar with Linux, this cause wasn't hard to find -- like > > Windows, Ubuntu defaults to 'backing up' all deleted files into a > > 'Trash' folder, so that they can be undeleted. Checking my '.Trash' > > directory, hidden under the home folder, I had 7GB of data over the past > > seven months that could be deleted. As a whole, the 'Trash' folder idea > > is a nice one, except for the following: When Ubuntu told me I had run > > out of space, it didn't tell me I happen to have almost 7GB of data in > > Trash that could be deleted to free up space, and didn't offer me the > > option to empty it. > > > > This is, for want of a better phrase, /bad form/. Even Windows will > > prompt in advance as disk space runs out to run a disk clean up and, in > > the process, empty the Trash." > > > > > > I've only ever actually had this problem once, and didn't bother to > > think about it in this sense. > > _______________________________________________ > > Usability mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > >
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