Re: delete-file to trash

[Tassilo Horn]

On Friday 21 May 2010 23:44:52 Lennart Borgman wrote:
> >> Wouldn't it be strange if Emacs as the only application had moving
> >> to trunk disabled by default?
> >
> > 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?  I know
only file managers (or specialized file managers like photo managers or
music managers), 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.

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.

Bye,
Tassilo