Comment 2 for bug 209338

Possibly. I was under the impression that each individual app that used to move things to trash needs to have gnome-vfs support to work properly now (ie, there is no universal fix). I could be wrong.

If it's indeed the case that individual apps needs upgrades, it means bug #208277 would be because of any random app that hasn't got the vfs support yet.

However, the 'symptoms' of this bug are different from whats described there... to be more specific the system-wide trashcan shows up as empty, and opening up the trash can using the trash applet (or vfs link) shows nothing there. (Becuase the files were moved to a different folder which the trash can applet is not watching).

Basically, if the user is not knowlegable enough to know that its moving the files to ~/.trash, it will appear to them as if the files are being erased, but they will gain no disk space. The trashcan itself won't actually show up as full or needing emptying