Re: Concerning delete-by-moving-to-trash on free systems

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:

Hi David,

>> I've just found out about that option, and basically it's nice.  But
>> in order to integrate emacs on the modern GNU desktop the moving to
>> trash should be in compliance with the Freedesktop.org Trash
>> Specification [1] on systems that support it.  This spec enables
>> undoing of deletions which requires storage of some metadata of
>> course.
>>
>
> FWIW, see #973 Support for moving files to freedesktop.org-style
> trashcan (with patch):
> http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973

Nice!  Why do you fallback to ~/.local/share/ in
move-file-to-trash-freedesktop.  With the predicate you already checked
that XDG_DATA_HOME is set.  If it's not set in
move-file-to-trash-freedesktop I'd expect an error.

Does that have a chance to be included for 23.1?  I know, it's
feature-freeze, but even if it wouldn't do TRT in each and every case,
it cannot be worse than the current behavior, right?

Bye,
Tassilo