I'm having a similar problem. My applet show empty, and empty trash is greyed out, but they are actually items in the trash folder. I've included an attachment with a screen shot. I have never used the delete key to empty my trash. I've tried logging out and logging back in, but that didn't work. Now, I did remove it at one point when I was fooling around with how I wanted the panels, but I cant remember if it was working before then. I'm working with herd 5, 32 bit architecture.
** Attachment added: "screenshot of trash bug" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6730790/trash-bug.png -- Trash looks empty, isn't https://launchpad.net/bugs/72468 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
