Re: delete-file to trash

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > Basically no application except file managers delete by moving to
>> > trash.
>>
>> I thought all GUI applications moved files to trash when the user
>> deleted them. Is not that the case?
>
> What GUI applications deal with files in a user-visible way?


Any app that opens or saves a file. On w32 such apps can delete files.


> I know
> only file managers (or specialized file managers like photo managers or
> music managers),


Isn't Emacs such a program? ;-)


> and maybe email programs when using Maildir.  And the
> latter normally delete by moving to trash, but not to the freedesktop
> trashcan but a custom trash email folder.


Seems ok.


> But many apps (GUI or not) use files internally (just like emacs and
> apps on the elisp platform), and those will never show up in trash when
> they are deleted.

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Hm, yes. That seems correct too.

I think the problem is to distinguish between user initiated file
deletions and deletion of internal files.