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Bug 737624 - Empty Trash button does not work
Empty Trash button does not work
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Privacy
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Rui Matos
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-09-29 20:45 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2017-11-02 12:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
correctly register the plugin on the bus (2.22 KB, patch)
2017-10-10 09:00 UTC, Sebastien Bacher 		committed Details | Review
corresponding g-c-c change to use the correct bus name (1.45 KB, patch)
2017-10-10 09:09 UTC, Sebastien Bacher 		committed Details | Review

Description Michael Catanzaro 2014-09-29 20:45:47 UTC 
The Empty Trash button in the Privacy panel does nothing. I pressed it about three times while viewing my Trash in nautilus, refreshing manually after each time, then gave up and emptied my trash from nautilus instead. This is with control-center-3.10.3-2.fc20.
Comment 1 Chris Murphy 2017-05-08 04:33:42 UTC 
This is still a bug in gnome-shell-3.24.1-1.fc26.x86_64

If it's not going to work, the button needs to be removed.
Comment 2 Andrea Antolini 2017-10-08 08:00:08 UTC 
Just to report the same behaviour also  with gnome-control-center 3.26.1..

Also "Purge temporary files" seems that does nothing.. or, at least for me, it is not clear what files or folder will be deleted..

Thanks
Andrea
Comment 3 Felipe Borges 2017-10-09 12:16:49 UTC 
This seems to be a gnome-settings-daemon bug.

Clicking "Empty Trash" triggers a DBus call to org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping

I am not able to see the Housekeeping plugin available in the session bus. I'm using d-feet.

You should be able to verify that by running:

gdbus introspect --session --dest org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.Housekeeping --object-path / --recurse
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2017-10-10 09:00:17 UTC 
Created attachment 361217 [details] [review]
correctly register the plugin on the bus
Comment 5 Sebastien Bacher 2017-10-10 09:09:05 UTC 
Created attachment 361218 [details] [review]
corresponding g-c-c change to use the correct bus name
Comment 6 Bastien Nocera 2017-10-10 17:04:51 UTC 
I don’t maintain this code anymore.
Comment 7 Rui Matos 2017-11-01 16:04:29 UTC 
Review of attachment 361217 [details] [review]:

lgtm
Comment 8 Rui Matos 2017-11-01 16:04:39 UTC 
Review of attachment 361218 [details] [review]:

sure
Comment 9 Rui Matos 2017-11-01 16:41:40 UTC 
Pushing, thanks for patches