roro wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 17:26
My question:
Is it possible to remove the Trash from the system.
It's hardly of any use
thanks
Why not just ignore it? There is a desktop setting to hide the icon, or pretend it doesn't exist.
Rava wrote: ↑20 Nov 2022, 12:36
Good question, some claim it is needed so that users who want Port to act like Windoze feel more at home?
And as you just proven Thrash does more harm than good.
I disagree with this.
TL;DR
I'm fairly torpid about backing up and making sure some files are needed while I'm working on something, and some of these files are megabytes in size. "Trash" then is used as some kind of placeholder. Sometimes I delete a file and have to visit the "Trash" to get it back. In the course of music creation, some apps don't render properly from plug-ins, must be given accurate settings. This happens to me a lot. If there was a wave file that was supposed to be in stereo, because the user forgot to set things properly, and was sent to "Trash" because of that, it would be much preferred when the moody music-creation program now doesn't want to cooperate. If that mono wave file were
deleted via "rm" terminal command or [SHIFT][DELETE] trick then, oh well, I don't know what one of you guys would do except scream out of a window.
A side-note is that I use Fedora MATE sometimes for music production, and I don't depend on any live distro for this kind of thing. I'm a hobbyist, ie. prefer Wine with Windows 32-bit VST plug-ins instead of trying to record anything with Ardour, or wasting time tweaking settings for ALSA and Jack, or dealing anyhow with 64-bit in any format.
How about when the user started working on a document that previously didn't have images, looks great at the moment but he/she wants to get fancier? Then the user starts adding images but the performance of the word processor is too slow, or "it's just not right" so he/she spends all night adjusting it. Then a glitch happens damaging most of the document. It's better to back up, eh? But if a copy resides in the "Trash" that was that plain old document before the harmful modifications, it could be a real life-saver.
The same could be said about "undo" function, but back to the case of the music-creation program, such a thing either is too impractical to exist, or the user could return to a point which is not entirely satisfactory. Dealing with plug-ins is not reliable at all. A program such as Audacity or MusE would be great for recalling only out of slicing and dicing wave files. But when plug-ins are involved, those two, and many others will require the user to seriously think about a backup plan.
This is not a likely case for most of you. I'm only explaining some of my experiences.