339546 - nsIFile.remove should allow option to send to Recycle Bin/Trash

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement)

Description

[Mime Čuvalo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

It would be good that nsIFile has the ability to move a file to the OS's Recycle Bin/Trash.  Or, alternatively, the "Trsh" folder is defined in http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpcom/io/nsDirectoryServiceDefs.h but only for the Mac.  It would be good to have access to Linux and Windows as well for cross-platform development abilities.  

The practical use for this is, in my case, I'm developing FireFTP and it acts partially as a File Manager.  Currently when deleting files, the user must permanently delete them.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mime Čuvalo]

I've added this to FireFTP now via jsctypes.  See http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/fireftp/src/content/js/local/localFile.js.diff?r1=1.29;r2=1.30;f=h

I still think this should maybe be a part of the core API though.

Comment 2

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

Note that this (in *nix world) is highly DE specific (on win+mac, there's only one DE).
Also think of cases like remote filesystems, etc.

I doubt you wanna implement poper handling for all these individual cases (and the
required customizability) into moz core.

As that's a quite common topic (for all kind of file managing applications), I'd
suggest moving that to an entirely separate library, which can be easily patched
or replaced by distros / operators.

Comment 4

[Nika Layzell [:nika] (ni? for response)]

We don't support XUL addons anymore