> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at 9:54 AM > From: "Volker Hilsheimer" <volker.hilshei...@qt.io> > To: "Jason H" <jh...@gmx.com> > Cc: "Vitaly Fanaskov" <vitaly.fanas...@qt.io>, "development@qt-project.org" > <development@qt-project.org> > Subject: Re: [Development] New API design for file system operations > > > > > On 11 Feb 2019, at 19:16, Jason H <jh...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > >> The question for me is: why would an application (that is not a file > >> explorer) want to do any of this? I honestly don’t see the use case. > > > > When I filed the bug against KIO not having a "trash" feature it was > > because I was working in digikam (photo library) in KDE - this is MANY > > years ago (2004, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88615 ). Anyway, I > > deleted the library in the application, and ALL my photos went *poof*. I > > looked in the trash... Nothing. I expected my user-generated data to to be > > recoverable in the trash. > > > > So the use case, is when the user has generated data that the application > > does not own, where it should not assume ownership of said data and the > > user has requested it be removed. > > OR > > The user has requested the data be removed but not destroyed, so in a way > > that the data can be potentially recovered. > > But that’s a usecase for a “move-stuff-to-the-trash” function, right? As in > “remove those files, but do not delete them permanently”. > > The user would expect to be able to see what’s in the trash, and to restore > stuff from there, using the standard desktop trash-can metaphore, not some > application specific shenanigans. > > You would want the application perhaps to be aware of the user restoring data > from the trash, ie adding the files back into the workspace, or the photos > back into the library. In that sense, "restoring from trash" is just the same > as “restoring from backup” or “downloading from the internet”, I suppose.
If there is a restore function, I would only expect it to exist as an "undo" operation. Like if a cat walked on the keyboard pressing the delete key. Although it probably doesn't really matter to Qt. The move to trash and undo pair of operations should both be supported. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
