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10.3: Add a trash can to the desktop
The trashes for the user's own home directory trash is stored in '~/.Trash', but for every item that originates on a different volume, the item is moved to '/Volumes/VolumeName/.Trashes/UserID#/'.
This hint will only show the items in the '~/.Trash' directory, and no, I haven't figured out how to get a desktop Trashcan that access all Volumes' trash files for that user, without using a special program for that purpose...
10.3: Add a trash can to the desktop
I have not done it (I like <cmd><delete>), but you could write an AppleScript application that would trash any file dropped upon it instead using of a symlink or alias. You could even give the script a custom icon! I do not know how to change the icon when the trash is not empty (although I bet it can be done)!
10.3: Add a trash can to the desktop
OK. Here is the AppleScript.
Save it as an AppleScript Application and put it where you want (i.e., on the Desktop). I will leave the custom icon as an exercise for the reader!
-Mark
10.3: Add a trash can to the desktop
What I've done is use one of the dock control utilities to position the dock on the bottom right of the screen so that the trash can is always at the bottom right, no matter what else is in the dock. (You need a utility to put the dock at anything other than center position.) |
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