Bug 167738

Summary:	Wastebin plasmoid says "Trash Empty" despite plenty of files inside
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	David Dempster <david.linguist>
Component:	widget-trashcan	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, fritz.heinrichmeyer, kojot350, mfabian, notmart
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description David Dempster 2008-07-30 14:32:16 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I have just added the Wastebin plasmoid to my desktop.  

It appears as an empty-looking bin.  It is labelled "Trash", and under that, it says "Empty".  If I click on it, I can see lots of files inside.

Perhaps the thingy that checks whether there are files is looking in the wrong place (e.g. ~/.Trash instead of ~/.local/share/Trash).

Comment 1 David Dempster 2008-07-30 14:33:41 UTC

WTF?  I clicked on "plasmoid" because the Wastebin is a plasmoid, and somehow this got filed under KGet!!

Comment 2 Lukas Appelhans 2008-07-30 14:58:10 UTC

Yes, KGet has a Plasmoid as well. Probably we should rename that Component...

Lukas

Comment 3 David Dempster 2008-07-30 15:09:51 UTC

OK, thanks.

I have new information.

KDE just crashed on me (I'll file a bug if it does it consistently), so I had to restart X and log back in.  The Wastebin then correctly reported the number of deleted files!

So, I did an experiment.  I removed the plasmoid, and then put it back.  It started to misreport the bin as "empty" again.  I logged back in again, and again the reporting of the state of the bin was fixed.

In conclusion, the Wastebin plasmoid fails to correctly report the status of your trash until the subsequent time that you log in.  It seems to do this consistently.

The fact that it fixes itself will probably mean that most people will not report the bug here, but the bug is still very real, and could be quite frustrating at first.

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-07-30 22:56:15 UTC

i can't reproduce this =/

it's using the proper URL (trash:/) and i can't see what would be different between plasma start up and first creation.

Comment 5 David Dempster 2008-07-31 03:06:02 UTC

Really?  I know it's weird, but it's real.

Here are the exact steps to follow:
* Get KDE 4.1.0 (preferably on Kubuntu 8.04.1)
* Create a new user (so there are no left-over configuration files at all)
* Open Dolphin, and delete some files.
* Add the Wastebin plasmoid to the desktop.

I've just tried it again right now.  I found that if I put the plasmoid on first, and then deleted some files, the total was correctly updated.  But if files were already in the bin, and I then added the plasmoid (as described in the above steps), then it continued to claim it was empty.

Comment 6 Fritz Heinrichmeyer 2008-09-06 10:56:58 UTC

with libplasma from 4:4.1.1-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1
under Ubuntu 8.04.1 the situation has not changed.

Comment 7 Fritz Heinrichmeyer 2008-09-06 11:00:06 UTC

forget my last comment, i confused the bug number

Comment 8 Mike FABIAN 2008-09-22 12:21:15 UTC

See also: http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=413629

I can reproduce it like this:

- Move some items into the trash can. The icon of the trashcan
  shows the number of items.
- Add a new trash can with "add widget". The newly created trashcan
  does not show the number of items, instead it shows “empty”.

Comment 9 Marco Martin 2008-09-22 20:02:55 UTC

probably is the lack of filesystem alteration monitoring support, kde compiled without fam support or something like that

Comment 10 Mike FABIAN 2008-09-22 20:14:49 UTC

Then why does the first trashcan work correctly?

Comment 11 Paweł Prażak 2008-09-23 17:02:22 UTC

I can confirm this bug for Kubuntu KDE versions 4.1.0/4.1.1 and I can't confirm it for SuSE 11 KDE 4.1.1/4.1.67

Comment 12 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-11-20 07:42:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168733 ***