Re: Wastebasket woes

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 14:02 +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> Well, it's that time of year again when the translations start up.
> 
> The Ubuntu team have decided for themselves that they are going to use
> the term "rubbish bin" instead of "wastebasket" in their en_GB
> translations[0]. No matter what you may feel about downstream taking
> this decision, I suggest that the term in GNOME should also be changed
> to "rubbish bin".

I believe we already had that discussion, and "rubbish" is far to
colloquial for my liking anyway.

> For starters, one of the new strings in Nautilus is "Trashed on". The
> snag with the word "Wastebasket" is that you'd have to reword that to
> "Moved to wastebasket on", which is rather long winded; whereas it could
> be "Binned on" with the new term. It would also be less confusing if all
> distros used the same terminology.
> 
> Thoughts, comments and complaints are welcome of course.

I don't even understand what "Moved to wastebasket on" is supposed to
be. I'm guessing a date comes after it.

Who's on for a recycling bin? Then we could have "Recycled on".

> Incidentally, I'm sorry that I lost my temper on that bug report, I
> really shouldn't comment that late in the night.
> 
> [68] https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/406626/comments/68