[Bug 96422] Gnome lacks trash management outside /home/user

[kornelix]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome

This applies to Ubuntu 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04 (and any Gnome desktop?).

If a user owns files in a partition not mounted at /home, files deleted
in Nautilus will not go into trash, but will be immediately deleted.
Nautilus warns about this.

My case: partition mounted at /home2 with user files in /home2/userxxx
(/home2 owned by root, /home2/userxxx owned by userxxx)

The problem is easy to fix manually: 
Add directory /home2/.Trash-userxxx owned by userxxx. Nautilus will now work normally.

This is done automatically for user root, but not for other users.
Perhaps this is a permissions issue that is not trivial to fix (requires
root permissions to create /home2/.Trash-userxxx).

Nautilus should put the .Trash folder where it can
(/home2/userxxx/.Trash), or it should use the normal trash at
/home/userxxx/.Trash

** Affects: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Gnome lacks trash management outside /home/user
https://launchpad.net/bugs/96422