Trash spec: wrapping up

[Alexander Larsson]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:00 +0300, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > This field would be empty if the file trashing was "normal"? (i.e. from
> > a file manager or file selection dialog). Then that sounds fine to me.
> > Perhaps is should be called TrashContext or something instead of
> > Application though, because theoretically this type of special-casing of
> > some forms of trashing might be used among a set of apps.
> 
> Namespace issues can arise here. I.e. two apps independently decide to
> use the same TrashContext values for incompatible means. Perhaps we can
> offer a "prefux" system, so that KDE and Gnome contxts start with KDE_
> and GNOME_ respectively, and any FooApp woule be encouraged to start its
> context with FooApp_ ?

Well. Most of the time the context would be the app name, but sometime
it might be e.g. the name of some app-spanning project or something. We
don't generally have problems getting things like names unique. I think
its enought to mention in the spec that you have to make the string
unique by including the application name or something similar.

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