gnome_vfs_find_directory ()

GnomeVFSResult
gnome_vfs_find_directory (GnomeVFSURI *near_uri,
                          GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind kind,
                          GnomeVFSURI **result,
                          gboolean create_if_needed,
                          gboolean find_if_needed,
                          guint permissions);

Used to return well known directories such as Trash, Desktop, etc. from different file systems.

There is quite a complicated logic behind finding/creating a Trash directory and you need to be aware of some implications: Finding the Trash the first time when using the file method may be pretty expensive. A cache file is used to store the location of that Trash file for next time. If create_if_needed is specified without find_if_needed , you may end up creating a Trash file when there already is one. Your app should start out by doing a gnome_vfs_find_directory() with the find_if_needed to avoid this and then use the create_if_needed flag to create Trash lazily when it is needed for throwing away an item on a given disk.

enum GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind

Specifies what directory gnome_vfs_find_directory() or gnome_vfs_find_directory_cancellable() should find.