Comment 7 for bug 199707

Confirmed in 8.04.

A friend who uses my system under a non-sudo account I created for them asked me why their trashcan in the taskbar bottom-right kept disappearing. "Where's the trashcan? I looked around and I can't see it?" I thought it was because I had changed the theme for him from the default human theme to a blue one (I forget the name of the theme I changed it to), and I had seen the trash icon there when I set it up for him. I thought he was crazy, so I logged into his account with him there, and sure enough, it was gone. I googled for info and saw this page, my friend began dancing in celebration. It turns out he wasn't crazy after all, but I had never experienced this strange bug before now.

This does not occur for me on my sudo-enabled user account, the first account created during the Ubuntu install. It does occur for my friend when he logs into his non-sudo account. He uses a different theme, one of the others offered in the default install, it gives him a blue trashcan and a green running stick figure Quit icon in the top right corner of the screen. He has no other problems other than this disappearing trash icon. I enabled the Trash icon on his desktop and he is satisfied, he hasn't said a word about the missing trash icon even though it still is missing when he logs into his account.

I'm not sure at what point the trash icon on the bottom panel started disappearing for him.