As a matter of fact, someone also suggested upstream that "Empty Trash" should be placed first in the menu, before "Open". Another argument in favor of this is that when you want to open the trash, you usually just left-click on it.
** Attachment added: "Patch (obsoletes the previous one)" http://librarian.launchpad.net/2265560/trashapplet_menu.patch -- "Empty Trash" should be better highlighted https://launchpad.net/bugs/22748 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs