removing kde’s trash can from the desktop

I prefer to keep the program shortcuts on the panel and so it became an annoying to see that lone trash can teasing me into deleting it. But ofcourse, right-clicking on it gives no such option. So we had to do it in the hacker’s spirit. First I made a shortcut for the icon on my panel. Then I opened the terminal and typed:

rm -R ~/Desktop/trash.desktop

viola! a clean desktop finally