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javock

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Thursday, October 14th 2004, 4:57pm

KDE trash sucks!

Hello,
I'm sorry for the subject, but I needed to get your attention!

I find the kde trash (using kde 3.3.0) to be an anoyance instead of a usefull tool! whenever I delete something, it does not get deleted, it gets MOVED to the trash. What if the trash is on another fs? It takes an awful amount of time to "delete" the file, plus, what if I do not have any space left on the fs? But the real annoyance (I wouldn't matter the copy if this worked), the trash does not allow you to have two files deleted with the same name... what if I want to erase 2 different files (in content) on diferent directories? I get the overwrite dialog... do I need more questions asked? *no* I want to work... I finally don't use the trash, erasing everything with shift+del...

So, someone else with this problems?

Don't take me wrong, I love KDE, it is what I use, but the trash has had the last of me, and I needed to vent my frustations...

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Thursday, October 14th 2004, 8:32pm

Then don't use the trashcan.

You can go to Control Center -> KDE Components -> File Manager -> Behavior,

Then check the box Show 'Delete' menu entries which bypass the traschcan.

javock

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Thursday, October 14th 2004, 8:56pm

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Then don't use the trashcan.

You can go to Control Center -> KDE Components -> File Manager -> Behavior,

Then check the box Show 'Delete' menu entries which bypass the traschcan.


I'd rather have a trashcan (I make lots of mistakes) but more à la windoze...

Please don't flame me, I was just upset by an erase that I shouldn't have done and the trashcan was useles because I bypassed it because I'm not confortable with the current implementation...

Peace :lol:
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Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:10pm

The contextmenu in Konqueror has two option: move to trash and delete.
When using keyboard it works like on Windows: Del moves to trash, SHIFT+Del removes right away.

The other problems, e.g deleting equally named files, are being adressed by the new kio_trash IO slave (KDE IO subsystem), which will also be a working implementation of the new freedesktop.org trash specification.

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Thursday, October 14th 2004, 11:35pm

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Please don't flame me, I was just upset by an erase that I shouldn't have done and the trashcan was useles because I bypassed it because I'm not confortable with the current implementation...

If my reply came across as a flame, my apologies. I really only intended to be helpful, perhaps I responded with to much of a 'Matter of Fact' attitude.

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Friday, October 15th 2004, 6:22am

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freedesktop.org trash specification.

That one makes me laugh every time I hear it. Sounds very funny. :-)

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Tuesday, December 20th 2005, 4:42am

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You can go to Control Center -> KDE Components -> File Manager -> Behavior,
Then check the box Show 'Delete' menu entries which bypass the traschcan.


I too wish to completely abolish the trash bin. I never used it, never used recycle bin in windoze and never will. I want it gone. Just delete em! And maybe I'm missing something, but I did as instructed above, and my deleted files still end up in the trash bin which I have to empy every now and again which takes forever sometimes.

How can I completely get rid of trash bin, and just delete my files when I want? Thanx!
L8r!
Tom Smith