Add ability to pin trash bin to dock

[Clara]

The question describe what I want to do, to add the trash bin to the plank dock, but is it possible?, and how to?

Thanks

[Clara (claracagigal)]

I would like to add the trash bin icon to the plank dock through the settings or other simple configuration way.

Thank you vey much.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

This is a docky feature which is already implemented in a docklet.
@robert: So I am wondering why you want to do something about that in plank?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Sorry, forgot to attach the patch.

@Rico: the issue here is, we use File.new_for_path when we could easily use File.new_for_uri. With this small change, you can then put a uri of 'trash://' and add a trash stack to your dock.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Note that this does not give similar functionality as the Trash docklet in Docky. It literally just acts like any other folder on your dock.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

@robert: if you really want to introduce this then this currently breaks everything without further changes. File.new_for_uri fails silently for simple path arguments without an uri-type.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

If you refer to the fact launchers would need updated to prepend 'file://' to their paths, I am aware of this.

[Clara (claracagigal)]

Thanks for the patch.

 How do I apply?, simply I run it in a xterm ? or I do need to make other operations?.

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

@Rico: also, we could look at the launcher path and if it has no protocol listed, assume 'file://' which should provide backwards compatibility.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

@Robert: Feel free to prepare a patch which does that.

[Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)]

@Robert: any news on that?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Well to be honest, that patch doesn't even seem to work for me now. I think too many things have changed in trunk since I wrote that.

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Now with this marked fixed, how do I do it exactly?

[Robert Dyer (psybers)]

Manually create a new .dockitem:

rdyer@narmada:~/.config/plank/dock1/launchers$ cat trash.dockitem
[PlankItemsDockItemPreferences]
Launcher=trash://

Note that Plank simply treats this as a folder. You will get a trash icon and right click will contain the trash contents. But you can't drag files to it. You can't empty it.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

I have a better idea:

Here's a desktop file (/usr/share/applications/trashcan.desktop):
http://pastebin.com/YbKcrw3F

And a dockitem:
http://pastebin.com/8PjYaLNG

And some bash magic to make it really work (rewrite in vala?):
http://pastebin.com/esgaJXmB

The icon will function as a drop target for files and folders, but open the trash directory when clicked.

It also features an "Empty Trash" right-click option.

The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to switch the icon when there is trash.

[quequotion (quequotion)]

Unfortunately, even if the the icon is changed in the desktop file, plank does not update the icon displayed.

[Panagiotis Tabakis (tabakisp)]

Running Plank 0.10.0.1392 on Xubuntu 14.04 32bit still no proper fix released.