[Bug 448122] Review Request: trash-cli - Command line trashcan (recycle bin) interface

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Summary: Review Request: trash-cli - Command line trashcan (recycle bin) interface


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448122





------- Additional Comments From pertusus at free.fr  2008-06-25 15:00 EST -------
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > The right level 
> > of non-genericity is something subjective, my feeling is that 
> > trash is not right since it may clash easily with an application doing something
> > very different, and be used in a standard in the future, be
> > is a defacto standard like what is in some basic package like util-linux,
> > coreutils, bash buil-in and a few others or a real standard.
> 
> When a such standard will be created I can accommodate the trash-cli command
> names to do not conflict with the standard.

Anticipating by not using generic names will help not forcing users 
to redo all their scripts.

> The util-linux is standard only on Linux based distribution. Debian which is not
> Linux specific doesn't have the util-linux 'rename' which is a command with a
> interface so poorly designed that doesn't allows to grows (for example you
> cannot add any switches to rename synopsys without broking the existing
interface). 

I don't want to argue about that example, it may very well be that using
rename from util-linux-ng is a bad choice and that it should be discussed
with upstream and in the mean time renamed. If you fill a bug against 
util-linux-ng I'd like to be in CC to see what the maintainer says and
be able to argue on that case. As I said above there is 'ren' in fedora
which is a bad idea already, but it is not a reason to let other generic 
names enter the distro.
 
> At the present 'trash' is the best (in terms of usability) name I've found for
> the command that trashes files. It's important for me provide a usable interface
> to facilities of trash-cli package. If someone could suggest me a name that is
> good in terms of usability and is not so generic please tell me.

I can propose
to-trash
in-trash
trash-dump
trash-put
I can try other names if none fits (but I am not very good at that
be it only because I am not a native english speaker).

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