Comment 6 for bug 799708

I notice you're running Lucid (Ubuntu 10.04). Could I suggest you try a newer release (the latest stable is 11.04) and see whether the trash can icon has changed and is less bothersome to look at?

You can download a Live CD from here:

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download

You can boot the Live CD and look at the icons before deciding if you might want to upgrade.

Sadly, however, the Monitors icon still shows a right-angle triangle... if that's a showstopper bug, we'll have to warn the pythagorean sect to be more inconspicuous, er, ask the designers to maybe consider changing that icon.