Quoting Hendrik Boom (hendrik@???):

> But there may well be some applications that depend on parts of ght
> gnome and kde libraries, and they my well have this dysfunction. I'm
> just wondering what they are.

The filenames and file contents inside ~/.local/share/Trash are
probably your best clue.

(Your surmise certainly seems logical.)

> cp, mv, ls, and rm is what I usually use.

Reminds me: Having noticed the accumulation there, maybe a brief cron
or anacron job to do 'rm' is a good idea.