Move the trash onto the Desktop

[probonopd]

Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini who wrote the first five editions of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines argues in favor of putting the Trash on the Desktop rather than having it in the Dock.

This is especially valuable if the Dock becomes optional.

If we put a desktop file in ~/Desktop like

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Trash
Icon=user-trash
Exec=launch Filer trash:///

then the Trash gets displayed in the bottom-right corner of the desktop; but this is not fully functinal yet. We'd need to backport proper trash-related handling from https://github.com/lxqt/pcmanfm-qt/blob/master/pcmanfm/desktopwindow.cpp

Once this is backported/implemented properly in Filer, we can remove the Trash from the Dock and/or make the Dock optional.

Related:

• Trash folder problem (In experimental-12.2) #38
• Bring features from the Dock into the menu Menu#21

[KDGNOR]

make both dock and desktop optional

In Mac OS X hide Trash,HD"computer",dvd,usbStick,Connected servers on desktop are a optional

[kettle-7]

I'm pretty sure that there's a format a bit like a desktop file that gets treated a bit like a symbolic link.

From memory, if you boot up an Ubuntu 16.04 live usb, and run cat ~/*xample* in a terminal, it shows a desktop file. But in nautilus it acts like the original folder was bind-mounted there.

If you're wondering where I'm going, PCMan might have the same functionality...