"This Week in Plasma" brings a brand new HDR calibration wizard, an improved configuration dialog for the comics widget, textual headers for for audio devices in the volume widget, a new animation for

@nictakiego @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Trash is still just a folder. The widget just makes it easier to interact with.

Is it being completely converted into a widget, or is this widget just in addition to what it is now?

I don't see anything in the blogpost that indicates they're doing this. Isn't this just an extra widget, that probably interacts with the folder? Then, you can just remove the widget if you don't want it.