Comment 10 for bug 790591

> I like the idea of an android-style solution where as a trash
> button only appears when an item is being dragged.

I thought of that too but the Unity trash doubles as a system wide trash as well that can be used for dragging and dropping files from any nautilus window or the desktop.

Paradoxically (because hidden by default) however this design would make the removing launcher items via dropping on the trash more discoverable...