Comment 5 for bug 75435

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> mshapiro@eskimo:~$ ls -ld .local/
> drwx------ 3 mshapiro mshapiro 4096 2006-04-23 06:36 .local/
>
> and the same for ~/.local/share as well.

Protection is okay. Same here. Only important thing is that
processes owned by you can create the directories, as
it's the case for you.

[...]
> Creating ~/.local/share/Trash did not work, it still failed. If the
> permissions are wrong for ~/.local, that might explain why.

Unfortunately not.

Wild guessing, would be easier if I could reproduce it here
but works fine in my fresh ubuntu gnome installation :(

What does
   echo $XDG_DATA_HOME
   kde-config --path xdgdata-dirs
   kde-config --path xdgdata-apps
return? Does the start with ~/.local/share/...

Do you have a Desktop/trash.desktop file?

Mine looks like:

$ cat ~/Desktop/trash.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment=Contains removed files
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
Name=Trash
NoDisplay=true
OnlyShowIn=KDE
Type=Link
URL=trash:/

$ ls -l ~/Desktop/trash.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 ach ach 169 2006-11-16 21:49 /home/ach/Desktop/trash.desktop

This file is created vi kdesktop (that might never run in a
Gnome desktop).

Achim