On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 04:37:52PM +0100, Andrew Barnert wrote:
On Jan 1, 2015, at 11:37, Ram Rachum <ram@rachum.com> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm a complete ignoramus when it comes to Mac, so I can't say anything about that, but as I understand the discussion, there are problems with implementing this on Mac. Okay. So maybe this should be available only on Windows and Linux? (If it's not a problem to do on Linux.)
On Linux, it's not exactly like Mac, but it's similar. Linux has no notion of trash at all; desktop environments like GNOME do. And if you want it to work exactly like the way GNOME does, you call the API via GObject; otherwise you have to implement a complicated approximation based on rename that won't be fully functional.
Actually it seems that the trash location is standardized by the XDG Desktop Specification: https://github.com/kevva/xdg-trash http://www.ramendik.ru/docs/trashspec.html