Re: Why @#! is not Emacs using the Recycle bin on w32?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Taylor Venable wrote:
>> As I explained in a previous message, what I propose is an interface
>> for trash can handling that always comes with the system. There need
>> not be any implementation behind that interface. The deleting routine
>> should ask the interface.
> 
> This "comes with the system" thing doesn't make very much sense to me.
> You could use something like Gentoo where practically everything is
> optional, so there is very little idea of what "comes with the system."
> I think if you want to address the issue you need to focus on a
> specification-compliant desktop environment, rather than saying
> "GNU/Linux" because the latter is simply too vague.

Yes, of course. Fortunately (as have been said in this thread) it looks
like freedesktop.org is addressing this issue.