The Gnome desktop doesn't really have a good view on the trash can. The display in Nautilus is very limited for a number of reasons. Most importantly, it does neither display the original path, nor the deletion date. Thus, it does not allow sorting by deletion date, and you never know where your restored files will end up. Also, if you deleted two files with the same name, there's no way to distinguish between them.
That leaves two choices for the humble user: Keep the trash can in order, or treat it as a black hole.
As a third option, one can use a little Python script that I wrote up recently, which gives a journaled view of the trash can:
Code is (as usual) on GitHub. As it's a Python script, you should be able to just run it (provided that you have Gnome- and GTK+ Python bindings installed).
In fact, if the gconf dependancy was made optional, the script should work on any desktop which conforms to the freedesktop.org trash can spec.
Okay, admittedly, this pet project is basically the result of my wanting to try out GIO, which is actually pretty nice.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
TrashJournal: Your friendly Desktop Raccoon
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Seems like a good idea!
ReplyDeleteI've just tried it out and found it really useful, thanks!!
ReplyDeleteWow, that's great, I've been seeing a couple of your works and I really wish you were on the Gnome team, you have very good and useful ideas.
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