Trash applet icon does not refresh

[georgespatton]

Binary package hint: yelp

When the trash is emptied via the Gnome Trash Applet, the icon does not change from a filled trash can to an empty one. The only way to fix it is to delete the applet and add it back onto a Gnome panel. Replication is easy: send something to the trash, then right click the trash applet to Empty Trash. The icon sometimes refreshes to an empty trash can, sometimes it does not.

johnboy@jschmidt:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

This is the latest .deb package as of November 3rd, 2008. Trash Applet 2.24.1.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: yelp 2.24.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=/home/User Name/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Re-assigning to gnome-applets for now

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I can reproduce this using the steps you describe.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559210

[georgespatton (georgespatton)]

What I am thinking is that there may not be a "change icon" subroutine after all of the refreshes or after all of the spots in the code where the Trash is emptied. It sounds like a quick fix.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could be bug #293294 or one of the similar issues already listed on launchpad

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Hi Sebastien - I think there is a typo in your last message (or I'm slightly confused), as this is bug 293294 already

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, that was bug #216739

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks Sebastien, yes that does look like the same issue