From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <48B95505.50808@gmail.com> References: <48B7288E.3040503@gmail.com> <48B73AA9.5090900@gnu.org> <48B73D8F.90501@gmail.com> <48B7AC10.6090800@gmail.com> <48B7B08B.6050103@gmail.com> <48B7F905.7060605@gmail.com> <001301c909e8$d63092e0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> <20080829155801.05fabc31.taylor@metasyntax.net> <48B85740.8060309@gmail.com> <20080829164637.4211a5b7.taylor@metasyntax.net> <48B86366.7040303@gmail.com> <87ljyfxz25.fsf@shellarchive.co.uk> <48B87432.6050902@gmail.com> <20080830100336.17179835.taylor@metasyntax.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220105495 17793 80.91.229.12 (30 Aug 2008 14:11:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:11:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel To: Taylor Venable Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 30 16:12:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZRBl-0000io-Oe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:12:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51932 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRAn-00015e-06 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRAi-00013P-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRAh-00010c-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:11:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45994 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZRAh-00010W-0i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:48005) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZRAg-0000Bj-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:61257 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KZRAc-0006yS-4z; Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:11:21 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <20080830100336.17179835.taylor@metasyntax.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080830-0, 2008-08-30), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KZRAc-0006yS-4z. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KZRAc-0006yS-4z 0ab78d40717cc9538fa92d30f680fb13 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103266 Archived-At: Taylor Venable wrote: >> As I explained in a previous message, what I propose is an interface >> for trash can handling that always comes with the system. There need >> not be any implementation behind that interface. The deleting routine >> should ask the interface. > > This "comes with the system" thing doesn't make very much sense to me. > You could use something like Gentoo where practically everything is > optional, so there is very little idea of what "comes with the system." > I think if you want to address the issue you need to focus on a > specification-compliant desktop environment, rather than saying > "GNU/Linux" because the latter is simply too vague. Yes, of course. Fortunately (as have been said in this thread) it looks like freedesktop.org is addressing this issue.