Deleting Trash can

[Philippe Landau]

let's not be up in arms over a trash can ;-)

 > On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 08:30, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
 >>>this bug is almost two years old and well known,
 >>>but canonical as so often never replied.
 >>Could you provide some details on this ? Not replied to what ?
yes, they are in my previous two emails about this,
but you cut them out.

 >>>it is made worse of course through the habit of
 >>>ubuntu to keep read-only permissions
 >>>when you copy folders from a CD or DVD,
 >>That's not an issue specific to the distribution
 >>but due to the upstream code probably
the beauty of open source is that anybody can fix it,
so canonical could fix the bug even if it is upstream,
if it wanted to fix it :-)
(alternatively, if gnome is not ready for simple things like this,
maybe other file managers could be made the default.)

 > I have also come across this problem. I compiled and installed the
 > latest versions of hydrogen and abiword. Once finished I just right
 > clicked on the source folders and sent them to the Bin. But then of
 > course the bin won't empty because of file permissions left over from
 > "make install".
 > # chmod -R 777 ~/.Trash/name.of.dir
 >
 > Once this is done the bin empties.
excellent, David.
now if canonical could just pack that into a few GUI hooks :-)

kind regards     philippe