xdg-utils should contain a trash bin tool

Submitted by Tassilo Horn

Assigned to Portland Bugs

Link to original bug (#20198)

Description

[Sorry for filing this in the wrong product, but there seems to be no xdg-utils component.]

Most of the time I'm doing my file management in the shell, where `rm' means dead and gone forever. I'd love to see a command line tool facilitating the freedesktop.org trash bin. I would imagine it to work like this:

Move baz.txt to the trash bin

$ xdg-trash /foo/bar/baz.txt

Move the whole bar directory to the trash bin

$ xdg-trash /baz/bar/

List the trash bin's contents (lists the original locations)

$ xdg-trash --list [1] /foo/bar/baz.txt [2] /baz/bar/

Restore the bar directory

$ xdg-trash --restore 2

Empty the trash bin

$ xdg-trash --empty