I have just done a fresh install. The only difference between this install and my previous installation is that I have mounted /home on its own partition, as opposed to having only a / partition. Both the Trash applet and Nautilus trash now are able to see and empty trash stored in my ~/.Trash folder.
The bug does seem to be that gnome-vfs sees the / partition as being a "rootfs" filesystem rather than "ext3" or whatever other real filesystem you are actually using. To prove this theory wrong, someone will have to come forward with a freshly-installed dapper or edgy system, with the /home directory tree belonging to the / mount point rather than a separate mount point, and who does not see this bug. -- Trash always empty. https://launchpad.net/bugs/34247 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
