User Interface Lesson: leave the trashcan alone

Hi,

fixing ubuntu one bug at a time, I will highlight a little flaw, that crept into Ubuntus icon theme. As “everybody” ought to know, the trashcan icon is a well known icon for describing the delete action. But some people are not entirly convinced yet:

And this is how it should look like:

And I am not not going to eloborate about what is wrong with the “red circle with a slash” icon.

Have fun, and write sensible Software,

-Richard

PS.: I think, I am going to make the trashcan drop-target in Open Movie Editor a delete button as well.

Update: Still not fixed in Feisty, but they changed it to a paper shredder, better, but still no trashcan, clearly a case of NIH.

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