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Using Trash should be optional
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RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Konrad Kosmowski 2007-03-01 14:21:04 CET
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Using Trash should be optional. I don't use Trash as provided with Thunar (I use libtrash) also some people would probably prefer not to use Trash at all. Right now I don't see any way to disable it totally in configuration.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 juha editbugs 2007-03-01 19:18:58 CET
gets my vote. agree.
Comment 2 rtfmspam 2007-07-03 13:35:07 CEST
I totally agree. Trash should be optional. Perhaps activated as default but being able to be disabled.

btw. I do not know how to vote for this bug.
Comment 3 Daniel Butzu 2007-10-12 08:01:17 CEST
I can confirm this bug. A checkbox for disabling Trash seems to be needed (in Thunar Preferences or in the Desktop Settings).
Comment 4 mm313263 2009-03-03 12:28:57 CET
Yes this should definitely be optional. It's not in the spirit of Linux by making stuff like this mandatory. A simple option like Edit -> Preferences -> "Use Trash" would be good enough.

I hope anyone reads these reports and is able to implement this option? I know some guys from Archlinux have even created their own patched Thunar packages to work around this issue!
Comment 5 Heiko Baums 2009-03-16 06:53:31 CET
This bug is pretty old, but I also agree in this. The trash and always pressing Shift + Del to delete a file is extremely annoying. A trash is not Linux like, anyway, because Linux doesn't have a trash either. If I want to delete a file, I want to have it deleted at once and don't want to be forced to delete it a second time by emptying the trash again. And even if I press Shift + Del to delete a file, I regularly (not always) have those deleted files in the trash.

Btw., Thunar 1.0.0 final (the target milestone) is already out.
Comment 6 questorm 2009-07-04 18:32:23 CEST
C'mon, guys! Vote optional!
Comment 7 mm313263 2009-07-19 14:52:36 CEST
Bug is still present in 1.0.1.

If you're not convinced this is a bug, try deleting a large file from a slow USB 1.0 device and observe how painfully slow this is because it's getting moved to trash.
Comment 8 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-09-16 16:23:15 CEST
This is more or less fixed in git and will be part of Thunar 1.2. Since we're now using GIO, the trash:// backend is now entirely optional. It's delivered with GVfs but can be turned off manually by removing gvfsd-trash.

Bug #2964

Reported by:
Konrad Kosmowski
Reported on: 2007-03-01
Last modified on: 2009-09-16

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Jannis Pohlmann
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