The same happens when dragging a trash icon from Konqueror's introduction page. Funny enough, mouse cursor indicates that files are going to be copied. The only reasonable action should be creating a shourtcut to trash bin. Reproducible: Always
Thanks for the report. To be honest, I'm not sure if I would consider this a bug, but I'll reassign to the trash kioslave and let other people decide this.
Well, at the trash level we can't do anything about this, a KIO::move("trash:/", "file:///some/dest") will do a recursive move as requested -- which is not what the user expects. At most we could add a check in kio so that copying/moving all of trash:/ is forbidden, but I think the proper fix would be at the GUI level, by only offering "link" instead of "copy" and "move" in the dnd operation. I'll take a look at konq_operations doDropFileCopy().
Git commit 6072f58cf358c333d9652e4cfac2858a78f4191e by David Faure. Committed on 12/05/2013 at 11:00. Pushed by dfaure into branch 'KDE/4.10'. Dropping a link to the trash: don't move the full contents, just make a link FIXED-IN: 4.10.4 M +7 -6 lib/konq/konq_operations.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-baseapps/6072f58cf358c333d9652e4cfac2858a78f4191e