Trash applet is invisible
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-applets (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
Sometimes, the trash bin applet is not visible (I first noticed this when I wanted to undelete something and the trash was 'gone'). If I add further trash applets to the panel, they are also not visible.
However, I can still open the trash location via Go->Trash in Nautilus. If I empty the trash then and logout/login, the (empty) trash applet is visible again, including all the newly added trash applets. If I delete files and logout/login, the trash is invisible again.
This is a fresh install from Ubuntu 8.04 today (beta + current updates), but the /home is from a previous (Ubuntu 7.10) installation, so not sure if some old options might have mangled anything up. I noticed that files now reside in a .local subdirectory, so I deleted .Trash, but adding it did not make a difference either. It seems like it's no longer used.
Potentially, this can be very confusing, as the trash is not easily visible to the user, and adding new applets seems to have no effect.
I'm not sure if this is related to this bug, or if it's "normal" behavior: undeleting (moving to Desktop) a large file, like a movie, takes a VERY LONG time, as the whole file is copied (or looks like it). As my whole home directory (including Desktop and .local) is in one partition, I can only imagine that either a copy is done by nautilus, or that for some reason the file is moved to someplace else (/tmp?) first.
But then maybe something in my semi-upgraded Gnome setup thinks that it should use the non-/home partition for some reason.