Design flaw in trash spec

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:31 +0300, mr at ramendik.ru wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > I would recomment to just fail the creation of the .trashinfo file and
> > still move the data file. Reading the trash can be done by reading the
> > data files, and if there is no related .trashinfo file we just have less
> > info about the file. A small feature regression for that file, but not a
> > huge problem really.
> 
> Brilliant! And this has the advantage of general backwards compatibility.
> 
> However, if the change is made, will previous versions be able to find and
> restore (or purge) that particular file? What will current KDE and Gnome
> do if they see a file in the Trash but no info file for it?

Gnome doesn't use the new trash spec in any shipping code. The new gio
library use it, but that will handle the no-trashinfo case fine. (Well,
with obvious lack of features for that file.)