Trash spec 0.2, technical questions

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:36, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:04:38 +0400 Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> : Version 0.2 of the Trash Spec is now available. The location is
> : unchanged:
> : 
> : http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html
> 
> Why not have a environment variable to specify the users trash dir ? Say
> I would like to use $HOME/Trash instead of $HOME/.Trash I would like to
> be able to set a variable for this. How about $TRASHDIR or (to be
> coherent with the basedir spec) $XDG_TRASH_HOME ?

As an opposing view. Why have an environment variable to specify this?
Just adding complexity for the sake of complexity is very bad.

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