Trash Spec Idea

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 23:34 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Thursday 25 September 2008, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 20:04 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Monday 18 August 2008, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > > Yes, or see the KMountPoint code in KDE.
> > > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kio/kio/kmountpoint.cpp?view=markup
> > > 
> > > About the filesystem types in the trash implementation, what did I do.... ah yes, I don't
> > > use mtab at all, I use Solid which uses HAL to get a list of device volumes
> > > (org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume). Much nicer than the old way of filtering
> > > based on the filesystem type ;)
> > 
> > Does this really work well? Hal only maintains info for hardware
> > entities, and not for virtual mounts like e.g. an NFS mount.
> 
> That is true indeed.
> This is some information we'll have to get from Solid, independently from HAL.
> 
> Interesting that I didn't see a bug report about this; sounds like people don't
> use trash directories on nfs mounts :-)

What about other kinds of virtual mounts, like lvm volumes from combined
hw partitions? Does hal handle those these days?