getting tid of trashcan on desktop

hi, good people . . .

ever since kde 1.0 i have made a point of having *no* icons on my desktop. everything comes off of kicker or kmenu.

today i did my usual daily update -- many things arrived -- and now i have an unremovable trashcan on my desktop. i do not object to having a trashcan. i have kept it as a nice little subdirectory off of ~/ for lo, these many years. this thing is not movable, though. i thought to find a desktop directory buried somewhere in ~/.trinity/ whence i could move it, but no joy.

any idea how i can get rid of this thing?

thanks!