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Different kinds of Trash / Rubbish Bin in Desktop vs. sidebar
yaru-theme-* 18.10.4, Ubuntu Cosmic
On the Desktop, the Trash / Rubbish Bin is a recycle bin, with a recycling symbol and no lid, like you’d find in an office.
In the Files sidebar, the Trash / Rubbish Bin is an Oscar-the-Grouch-style grooved garbage can, with a lid with a handle, and something sitting in front of it. (A rubbish bag?)
The sidebar Trash icon does need to be simpler and more symbolic than the one on the Desktop, to fit in the much smaller size, and to be consistent with the other sidebar icons. But it needn’t be a completely different kind of bin altogether.
What should happen: either
- the sidebar trash icon is a recycle bin, like the desktop one
- the desktop trash icon is a grooved garbage can, like the sidebar one
- both of them are a different kind of bin — for example, a swing-top bin, a wire wastebasket, or a plastic recycle bin.
The current "desktop trash" is largely a placeholder (since folks weren't fond of seeing the fallback Humanity icon) and at the time I couldn't come up with a well-executed in-style solution that matched the symbolic icon.
The rubbish bag in the symbolic icon is a cheeky solution for the "full" state. 😉
