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