On 5 Jan 2015 05:25, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015, at 20:50, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You have a choice of desktop environments, which may or may not provide a move-to-trash API, including no desktop environment at all. Gnome provides an API for moving to trash, but I don't know how well it supports the freedesktop standard; KDE supports the freedesktop standard, but I don't know if it provides an API that can be called. XFCE has partial support.
I don't see why you need to call an API to the desktop enviroment. The entire point of the spec is to provide compatibility _between_ implementations on the same filesystem - you can quit gnome and log into KDE and see the same trash.
That compatibility is implemented *by* the desktop environments. Yes, you could write your own, but why would you, when the whole point of providing a standard API would be to integrate more cleanly with the underlying OS.
Python would just be a separate implementation that stands by itself.
The word "just" does not belong in that sentence. Reliable cross-platform development & testing for operations that are tightly coupled to operating system services is hard, period - the associated test matrix of platforms and permission levels ensures that. Regards, Nick.