Bug 115793

Summary:	if all files have the same owner, trash can should also have only one owner
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	federico
Version:	Beta 3
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Hardware:	All
OS:	SUSE Other
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Description Ulrich Windl 2005-09-08 07:09:05 UTC

Currently for a FAT-formatted USB memory stick, GNOME creates a trash folder
where the user's name is appended. So there's effectively one trash folder per user.
As the FAT filesystem doesn't have an owner concept, it makes little sense to
have multiple trash cans, especially if the memory stick goes from system to
system (each possibly using a different user id).
There shouldn't be multiple trash cans per media I guess.

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2005-09-21 17:29:57 UTC

What do you think federico?  I'm a bit reluctant to change the code path for a
single filesystem type.

Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2005-09-21 18:14:58 UTC

I wouldn't worry about this.

The *real* problem is that there's no easy way to empty the trash just for a
removable volume.  Currently, emptying your trash does it for all mounted
volumes (including your $HOME).

We are having this exact same discussion upstream - I think adding an "Empty
trash for this volume" item in a volume's right-click menu would be easy to do.

Comment 3 Ulrich Windl 2005-09-22 06:17:25 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
[...]
> We are having this exact same discussion upstream - I think adding an "Empty
> trash for this volume" item in a volume's right-click menu would be easy to do.

As an alternative solution, allow the user to avoid using the trash bin (In
MS-Windows you can press Shift+Del to really delete files instead of presing
just Del to move them into trash).

Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2006-05-01 20:19:17 UTC

Federico, what is the upstream bug number?

Comment 5 Federico Mena Quintero 2006-05-02 15:51:21 UTC

I think it is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138058.  It also mentions some related bugs in its comments.

Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2006-05-02 21:48:46 UTC

We'll let upstream sort this out.

Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:33:09 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:46 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:41:02 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:52:40 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(