If Trash Icon is changed by user, it will no longer track with icon theme changes and icon will not show full or empty appropriately

[Larry Tate]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

This problem began for me in Ubuntu 8.10 and continues with 9.04.

If the user changes the icon for trash by: right click, properties, select custom icon, the trash will no longer respond to wholesale icon theme changes initiated by the "Appearance Preferences" menu. Further, the icon does not respond to the presence of trash files by indicating full or empty status.

I tried to resolve this by 1) removing the trash icon from desktop visibility through gconf-editor then 2) altering the icon them then 3) replacing the icon on the desktop with gconf-editor. It did not work.

The trash icon will not work on the desktop or within a panel.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what icon are you speaking about, you opened the bug on gnome-applets but describe a nautilus gconf key

[Larry Tate (cathect)]

??

I'm talking about the trash icon (which you can make appear on the desktop using the gconf-editor). I only mentioned this because I tried to use the configuration editor to resolve my issue...but it didn't work.

I have tried everything but once you change the icon manually (not using a wholesale icon change with the Appearance Preferences) it is impossible to get it to work correctly afterward. I now cannot change the trash icon by changing the icon theme nor will the trash icon change to show full or empty status.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

there is also a trash icon on the bottom right bar which is the gnome-applets one and the bug has been opened on gnome-applets

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I cannot reproduce this with Jaunty or Karmic, are you still facing it ? may you tell us a few easy steps in order to reproduce it with a stock user? Thanks.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

I've the same bug on Ubuntu 11.04 it happens for the trash icon on desktop and the applet on bottom-right corner !

[DarkRedman (darkredman-deactivatedaccount)]

Apparrently that's a problem with gvfsd-trash.

To reproduce the bug, just simply empty the folder and you could (perhaps) see the icon didn't changed, to fix the bug manually you could kill all process of gvfsd-trash, kill nautilus to refresh the desktop and then it's fixed. But doesn't work for the applet.