Note that the "Empty Trash" button is greyed out - There is no way to purge ALL items from the trash

Its greyed out until you select items....

Its not a purge button, its a Trash item button and acts just like the Trash Action does... It makes no sense that its called "Empty Trash"

When I empty my trash cans, I don't take out one thing only. I tip up the trash can and empty it all... PURGE....

I see Joomla 3 has this strange behaviour too...

ok lets ignore the "Empty Trash" actually really being a "delete this item" from the db ...

The other bug in this issue remains too.

The other bug

Expected result = No "Trash" Action when items are already in the trash and when filtered by trashed items.

I agree it would be nice to take of the Actions => Trash when filtered by Trashed.

In the articles view for example we could have something like

				if (Factory::getApplication()->input->get('filter')[2] !== '-2')
				{
					$childBar->trash('articles.trash')->listCheck(true);
				}

Because we get a sequential array
["filter"]=> array(5) { ["search"]=> string(0) "" ["featured"]=> string(0) "" ["published"]=> string(2) "-2" ["language"]=> string(0) "" ["level"]=> string(0) "" }

Me not php good enough to fetch by published key ;)

As first step can we rename "Empty Trash" to "Delete" ?

That makes more sense yes, but it can also then be put into the Actions menu too, as its a normal action (unlike a purge task that it assumed it is when not in the action dropdown)

Yes I know but till someone modify the action array (because this interacts also with the workflow) a button text change in the first place would "reduce" the issue

As first step can we rename "Empty Trash" to "Delete" ?

Not sure about that. Macintosh has used "Empty Trash" for ever and I have never seen any comments on forum about this wording creating confusion.

You ARE confused and that proves my point nicely :-)

Empty trash on a mac PURGES EVERYTHING IN TRASH - you don't need to select anything

That's my point. In joomla you can safely assume Empty Trash means to PURGE EVERYTHING IN TRASH but that's NOT WHAT it does in joomla

In joomla Empty Trash button just deletes SELECTED ITEMS ONLY from the trash.

yeah. after siesta confusion...

Concerning the dropdown Trash choice when filtered by Trash, see #31074

This looks like it has been resolved elsewhere - please check and confirm

all good. ta.