Feature Request: Add some sort of trash can for cases when files are deleted

[klausenbusk (Kristian Klausen)]

@calmh

Yeah, so Linux doesn’t have a concept of a system trashcan in my opinion.

But if we did have an implementation of it otherwise, I could see a simple " mv trashcan" where you can just say “the trashcan for this folder lives in ~/.Trash” or whatever. Might be the 90% solution.

There is a spec which is followed by at least GNOME Files, KDE Dolphin (two of the most popular Linux DE) and xfce Thunar.

So it would be a matter of moving the file to $XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash/files and creating a .trashinfo file in $XDG_DATA_HOME/Trash/info like this:

[Trash Info]
Path=/home/foobar/foobar.txt
DeletionDate=2019-10-17T20:58:00