I found a 3.5.9 patch to add a trash can dialog to set trash storage limitations. The dialog would look like this:
http://tokoe-kde.blogspot.com/2008/08/size-limits-for-trash.html
The patch did get submitted in the KDE bugzilla but never got merged into 3.5.x.
I converted the patch to TQt3 and added an option to populate the konqueror configuration dialog with a trash icon that should show the same dialog.
The patch fails to build for me:
/dev/shm/tdebase/tdeioslave/trash/ktrashpropsdlgplugin.cpp:226: undefined reference to `TrashImpl::trashDirectories() const' /dev/shm/tdebase/tdeioslave/trash/ktrashpropsdlgplugin.cpp:141: undefined reference to `TrashImpl::trashDirectories() const' /dev/shm/tdebase/tdeioslave/trash/ktrashpropsdlgplugin.cpp:61: undefined reference to `TrashImpl::TrashImpl()' /dev/shm/tdebase/tdeioslave/trash/ktrashpropsdlgplugin.cpp:62: undefined reference to `TrashImpl::init()'
If you are interested then I have attached the patch to bug report 1923.
Darrell