Trash spec: directory size cache

[Jerome Leclanche]

Why can't the current <name>.trashinfo files be reused, with new keys added?

J. Leclanche


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:

> It turns out that the trash spec already uses %-encoding: for the path
> stored
> in the trashinfo file.
>
> So we discussed it a bit more and came up with this update:
>
> Let's not use the desktop entry standard for this, but a simple text
> format,
> where each line is:
> <size> <mtime> <%-encoded-path>
>
> Technically % encoding is really only necessary for control characters,
> but if
> we use URL escaping and escape other chars too, who cares, that'll work
> too.
>
> To resolve the timezone discussion, we'll just use the mtime in number
> format.
> So the file will look like:
>
> 16950 15803468 Documents
> 2467 15803582 Another_Folder
>
> Due to the clash with the KDE "metadata" file (our earlier attempt at
> caching
> the size, using INI format), this change of format means we should call it
> something else after all, say:
>
> TRASH_DIR/directorysizes
>
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