[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V6 #253

Axel Dörfler wrote:
> 
> I would vote for BEntry::MoveToTrash().

OK, I've just done some research in the Tracker and I'm starting to 
think that BEntry::MoveToTrash() really is a little too high-level for 
BEntry. I know FSUtils in Tracker is scary and not in a state to be 
used by other apps at the moment, but it does have some useful 
functionality, and there are many special cases and little nitpicky 
things that it handles. I'm not sure how cleanly MoveToTrash could be 
implemented given how the FSUtils version depends on various other 
features in FSUtils.

I guess I'll have to keep looking at it and try various things though 
before a real conclusion can be made. But I think the real issues 
involved won't be seen until someone actually tries to extract 
MoveToTrash from FSUtils.

> However, there is one more problem we might want to consider: Tracker 
> has a setting if files should be moved into the Trash at all, or 
> directly delete those files. I would think we can safely remove this 
> option from Tracker, though, so that the system wide "trash 
> experience" 
> would be consistent (that's one of those rather superfluous options 
> anyway).

I'm all for simplifying things, but I'm not sure we should remove 
features, even if they seem superfluous. In my case I have used Shift-
Delete to immediately delete files I know I don't want (which behind 
the scenes uses the same code as the option you mentioned.)

Plus as I said I'm not sure we are on the right track here.

Regards,
Ryan

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