Trash specification

[Wei Jiang]

Hi All,

The Trash specification is very good. It is intent for Unix, but it is good for Windows as well, with minor modification. 

I have implemented it for a cross platform (Unix and Windows) file manager Acelet Filer at http://www.acelet.com/desktop/filer.html.

I would like to comment about the Trash specification from my experience:

$XDG_DATA_HOME is difficult to implement. 
It is almost out of the capacity of trash implementer. Maybe I can modify .bashrc to add that environment variable, but the user may delete it later. I have checked Ubuntu 9.40 with Nautilus, $XDG_DATA_HOME is undefined.

Instead, I would suggest an alternative:

Call the program, which implements the Trash specification, with option -info homeTrashDirName to get the trash directory name. 

For example, as my case:

If you call 
   acelet-filer
 it will starts as GUI program. 
If you call 
   acelet-filer -info homeTrashDirName
 it will print the name of the directory and exit.

We have implemented Filer in this way.

If you decide to expand the Trash specification to Windows, I would like to contribute comments.

Thank you.

Wei Jiang
Acelet