b00f / gnome-trash

A gnome shell extension to manage your home trash.

Gnome Trash

A gnome shell extension to manage the trash items in Gnome.

It allows you to manage the trash items and empty or open the Trash folder. It lists the files in the trash bin in the panel menu.

Note: This extension is only shows items under home trash folder(~/.local/share/Trash).

Installation

To install the latest release, visit Gnome Trash on the Official GNOME Extensions page.

From source code

Before compiling the code, make sure you have installed TypeScript.

A Makefile is included. To proceed, simply run the command below:

git clone https://github.com/b00f/gnome-trash.git
cd gnome-trash
make install

If you want to test your changes, run make test. This command automatically installs the extension and restarts the gnome-shell.

You can run make test_wayland to test this extension on wayland.

How to contribute

If you would like to help improve this extension, you are welcome! To start, check the code; there are some TODO comments. You might be interested in working on them.

You can also add a new translation by using this command: msginit -i ./po/gnome-trash.pot -l <YOUR-LANG-ID>.