"It could even be used to set an option to delete files after N number of days, if someone so wishes"

i'd also like to see that "Trash Autopurge" functionnality in GNOME.

Trash purge is typically a function that could be automated.

Most applications propose such a functionnality (i.e. my webmail let me configure it to automatically delete messages in the trash after 7 days)

At present time lots of people get bored with emptying the trash so they prefer definitely delete files (shift+suppress)
But sometimes they make a mistake and regret it : they've lost the way to restore the file by refusing using the trash
See the paradox : the trash is a funtionnality that people want but refuse to use. It could be the sign that the fuctionnality has usability drawbacks and that it should be improve...

Moreover people doesn't want to empty the trash in real life : why would they enjoy doing it on their computer ?!

see also http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_GNOME_post-10.3_ideas

I am in favor of this idea. The trash applet could benefit from having such a configuration option. Not sure how this could be implemented as regards to time elapsed since deletion however, since files are only moved to ~/.Trash and not kept in a particular database.
I currently cron a rm -rf ~/.Trash/* but that is not optimal.

I'm not a developer but maybe Tracker could be useful to reach that goal ?
see http://www.netsplit.com/2007/11/30/on-metadata/

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