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When I try to empty the trash bin from the Trash Docklet in Plank (hit CTRL + Right Click on Plank to go the Plank Prefs and Docklets), it often crashes Plank (if not the whole desktop.)
And then, the Pref icon of Plank appears on the dock (blue anchor) and there's no way to get rid of it, but to close the session and come back.
A Plank problem or something in Pantheon ?
I found something similar using the stable version of Loki. The unstable (daily) version works better - there is no persistent Plank item in the most recent version for example.
If the trash contains a large number (1000's) of files, then the context menu in plank can take several seconds to appear during which time Plank appears to freeze; presumably it is busy populating the context menu "restore" section with each file name.
Also in neither case did the "restore file" option on the context menu work.
I think this is mostly down to Plank - you can install a different filemanager - e.g. Thunar or Dolphin - and use Settings/Applications to set it as the default file browser. The docklet launches the default filemanager. I found the same behaviour using a different filemanager.
Problem solved. I updated Plank from the PPA. The newer version has a fix.
Make window-manager aware that empty-trash dialog is part of plank (LP: #1652653)
