Re: [Nautilus-list] trash search

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 09:50  AM, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> The simple solution is:
>  - use the home directory for all directories on the same device
>    as the home directory
>  - if we can write to the top of a mount point, put trash there
>    (this does preserve the permissions/ACLs issue though)
>  - otherwise give up
>
> This is what I've hacked up for now, it basically involves a couple
> #if 0 in file-method.c. I'd love advice on a better solution, but I
> think scanning 5 or even 1 level deep for a writeable directory is
> simply not feasible - it is too expensive and raises too many hard
> issues, and hoses the machine too badly on first login.
>
> What are people's feelings on this?

It sounds OK to me. I'm not sure what the benefits are for the current 
more-complex trash implementation. Do you know of cases that the current 
implementation would handle better?

    -- Darin