enum GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind

typedef enum {
	GNOME_VFS_DIRECTORY_KIND_DESKTOP = 1000,
	GNOME_VFS_DIRECTORY_KIND_TRASH = 1001
} GnomeVFSFindDirectoryKind;

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

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.