Bugzilla – Bug 115793
if all files have the same owner, trash can should also have only one owner
Last modified: 2008-06-25 09:52:40 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.
What do you think federico? I'm a bit reluctant to change the code path for a single filesystem type.
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.
(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).
Federico, what is the upstream bug number?
I think it is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138058. It also mentions some related bugs in its comments.
We'll let upstream sort this out.
mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)
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 ;(