On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Andrea Francia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/7/4 David Faure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > This is all pretty bad, and the current solution to this in both KDE4 >> > and gnome (gio) is that trash to FAT/NTFS partitions is not allowed. > > Help me to solve this enigma, the GNOME support or not the Trash Spec? > In which version? > I understand that there is a protocol implementation of trash:/ but it seems > that is not yet used by nautilus.
As of Nautilus 2.22, GNOME support the XDG Trash specification through GIO and the GVFS-Trash backend. You can find the code for this backend here: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gvfs/trunk/daemon/ and GIO is in GLib: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib/trunk/gio/ -A. Walton > >> >> Andrea, would this also solve your problem? > > Ideally I would prefer an implementation that uses the Windows Recycle Bin > data structure in a NTFS, or FAT partitions. > But I don't know if there is a publicly specification of these data > structures and how it could be easy find and implement them (the ReactOs has > a Recicle Bin?). > > From another perspective there are many usb stick with VFAT partition that > are used only on non Windows systems, on these cases the Windows native data > structure is not needed and the shared .Trash/ dir could be useful. > > In any case I think that the .Trash/shared directory should be used only > after ask to create it. > For example an implementation could ask to the user "I'm not able to trash > this file because theres is not a trashcan, can I create it?". > > -- > Andrea Francia > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
