Re: [PATCH] enable trash usage on NTFS partitions

Alexander Larsson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.vfs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 15:09 +0100, Yann Rouillard wrote:
> Doesn't look so weird to me.
> Why is it more natural to do trashing on vfat partition ?
> 
> If NTFS trash shouldn't be allowed, the other problem is that nautilus 
> doesn't take it into account and currently trash files on NTFS.
> But that's a nautilus/gnomevfs issue, I don't know if nautilus/gvfs also 
> has this bug.

Well, NTFS has its own system for handling trash, doesn't it? And an
NTFS fs is likely shared with windows, which will show the ".trash"
directory in the root which is kind of weird.

But perhaps this is better than no trash support at all...

> Is it EOL for gnome-vfs ?

We still have to support the ABI, but don't expect to do any work on it
really.
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