On mån, 2013-04-15 at 18:47 +0200, David Faure wrote: > It turns out that the trash spec already uses %-encoding: for the path stored > in the trashinfo file. > > So we discussed it a bit more and came up with this update: > > Let's not use the desktop entry standard for this, but a simple text format, > where each line is: > <size> <mtime> <%-encoded-path> > > Technically % encoding is really only necessary for control characters, but > if > we use URL escaping and escape other chars too, who cares, that'll work too. > > To resolve the timezone discussion, we'll just use the mtime in number format. > So the file will look like: > > 16950 15803468 Documents > 2467 15803582 Another_Folder > > Due to the clash with the KDE "metadata" file (our earlier attempt at caching > the size, using INI format), this change of format means we should call it > something else after all, say: > > TRASH_DIR/directorysizes
This seems excellent to me. Simple, efficient, compatible. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
