Quoting Adam Borowski (kilobyte@???):

> Some of that DE crap (forgot which) will instead throw an error and refuse
> to delete the file. Which is bad if an otherwise good, say, image viewer,
> uses that Trash nonsense.

Recompile it to not do that? ;->

(There may be some clever and elaborate way to make a directory become a
file sink for mv or cp operations _without_ accidentally overwriting the
directory, as someone upthread thought could be done by symlinking to
/dev/null, but I'm not thinking of it offhand.)