Kevin Krammer wrote on 05/13/2016 06:58 AM: >> How do I control, per filesystem, whether files sent to trash from that >> filesystem go to a .Trash-<nnnn> directory located on that same filesystem >> or whether they go to the home trash located at ~/.local/share/Trash? > > I am not sure this is possible, at least the specification on freedesktop.org > doesn't mention any related configuration capability. > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/trash-spec/ > Right; but the specification doesn't define configuration at all, just behaviour. (You said the same thing later in your post.) I think I lived in hope that there were still enough old-style *NIX people around that the implementors for KDE would have created a configuration file that would control behaviour on a per-filesystem basis. It seems that I was wrong. > > Of course KDE's implementation could allow for certiain configurability within > the confines of the spec, but someone would have to check the code of kio_trash > for that. > Yes :-) >> (Right now, the behaviour seems to be always to create and use a trash >> directory on the filesystem of the file being trashed.) > > Right, the main reason being, as far as I understand, that "move" on the same > file system is usually instantanious while "move" across file systems is > bascially a lengthy copy operation followed by a delete of the original. Yes, but there are still some kinds of filesystems for which it makes far more sense to perform the latter. Doc -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
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