Trash Spec Idea

[João Valverde]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> João Valverde wrote:
>
>   
>> I think another approach is needed. This information needs to be 
>> centralized somewhere. My suggestion is (following the spirit of the 
>> current spec) to create some metadata *.trashcan files in 
>> $XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash that would describe every other partition's 
>> trashcan, obviously containing the full path and maybe with some size 
>> limits and auto cleanup settings as a bonus.
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> These would either be created and configured by an administrator or by 
>> implementations when opening trashcans.
>>     
>
> So what happens when the user adds a disk to the system?  They have to 
> remember to edit this metadata?  Or does some C implementation of the 
> trash spec have to update this?  If so, then how is that better than the 
> current situation of determining on the fly?
>
>   


The way that it's better is that parsing mtab everytime cannot be 
described as on the fly, at least without caching.

But you're right, I failed to consider the case where there is already a 
trash folder in the newly added disk and no *.trashcan file describing 
it on the $XDG_DATA_HOME partition. In this case this method is pretty 
hopeless unless some service would detect the newly mounted volume and 
create the *.trashcan file automatically. Nevermind then.

Regards,

João V.