Hello all,
Only to share a personal point of view.
I’m using KDE Plasma from years now, very sutisfied… but, hope some day folks at KDE will success in trying to fix the trash red folder after having emptied it!
Is it a very complicated task? What’s the difficulty on that?
Thanks all.
I am not sure about what you want, but it seems to me being a typical wish for the KDE developers. And thus I doubt any of your fellow openSUSE users here can do much for you.
I even doubt many openSUSE developers (who are normally not here) can do much for you. Maybe they can go upstream to the KDE developers, but it is of course much shorter to do that yourself.
https://forum.kde.org/ for discussing your item with fellow KDE users.
https://bugs.kde.org/ when you think it is a bug you experience.
Hello Henk,
ok I see. I’ll do a post also at KDE forum. Anyway I thought that also here OpenSUSE users faced the same issue and wish to know how to solve it.
Is it only my case? Maybe it is a general problem, nobody saw it?
Thanks a lot.
As said in my post “I am not sure about what you want”. You seem to think that everybody (or at least most) use plasma the same as you do. There are so many ways to configure your DE that that it probably not the case. And thus talking about "to fix the trash red folder"might need an explanation. Where do you see that “red trash folder”, etc. You seem to think the colour is wrong, what then should it be?
For me personally I can only say that when I run Dolphin, there is an item at the left-up that says “Prullenbak” (Dutch for “Dustbin”) and there is some mini icon beside it, but that is not red at all. And yes, I can right click on the text (maybe it also works on the icon) and then click “Prullenbak legen” (“Empty Dustbin”) in the context menu. But I will admit that I am more of an old fashioned text oriented user and do not pay much attention to icons.
trying to fix the trash red folder after having emptied it!
maybe a hidden file??
Make sure you have the following:
karl@erlangen:~/Schreibtisch> grep trash trash.desktop
Icon=user-trash-full
EmptyIcon=user-trash
URL=trash:/
karl@erlangen:~/Schreibtisch>
My trash bin is a blue when empty and red when non-empty.
Maybe one should add that in your case, should go to ~/Desktop instead of ~/Schreibtisch, or another equivalent in your language. 
@Karl Yes, I have the code you posted, that’s fine.
@Sauerland Nope, no hidden files, there is no difference. The issue occurs even if there aren’t any hidden files.
Thank you
Which “rubbish bin” folder?
Which icon set are you using for Plasma 5?
Assuming Dolphin (I haven’t found any other place to change the “rubbish bin” icon), if you enter the “Trash Folder” properties, is the icon being used “user-trash”?
[HR][/HR]BTW: because my rubbish bin is placed on the Plasma Desktop and not in the “Desktop” folder, there ain’t no “.desktop” file for the rubbish bin for this KDE user …
And, I haven’t yet found where Plasma has stored my rubbish bin icon setting …
I deleted the trash bin from my desktop and create a new working instance by running the following command:
cp /usr/share/kio_desktop/directory.trash trash.desktop
Or, do it via the Plasma GUI:
I have 2 machines running KDE on Tumbleweed. When adding a new user one machine creates ~/Desktop the other creates ~/Schreibtisch. How can I change (unify) that behavior?
Hm, a new question that IMHO would better go into a new thread so more people will see it.
I assume it depends on the language set when the user first logs in into KDE. This lets me assume that the language set for your two system may differ between the systems.
I also assume (I am pretty sure) that when the user after first log in adepts his environment and thus his language, the then already existing directories (like Desktop, Documents, etc) are not changed anymore.
But, as said, exposing this question to all by starting e new thread with a good title may draw the attention of the KDE gurus 
Attached all SATA drives, mounted all ATA images and finally found the culprit:
erlangen:~ # ll /mnt/home/karl/.config/user-dirs.dirs
-rw------- 1 karl users 634 Feb 18 2010 /mnt/home/karl/.config/user-dirs.dirs
erlangen:~ # cat /mnt/home/karl/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/**Desktop**"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Vorlagen"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Öffentlich"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Dokumente"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musik"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Bilder"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
erlangen:~ #
The file dates back to openSUSE 11.1. 
I am not sure I understand. I guess this is a backup or old version of the home directory of karl (once in /home/karl/). When that is correct, it is NOT a system file, neither in the place it is now, nor in the place it was (is?). And thus it will have no influence on what name is chosen for ~/Desktop for a new user.
When adding a new user one machine creates …
I got confused. I created a new user karl on the i7-6700K in 2016 and I thought I had done so when setting up the i3-4130 in 2014, but obviously the folder was copied from an older machine set up in 2009 and running openSUSE 11.1. 