Re: [Fwd: en_GB translation of "trash"]

[Etenil <etenil etenilsrealm nl>]

While waiting at the London city airport, I noticed the bins there have
"Litter Bin" written on the top.

Otherwise, wastebasket seems OK to me. "deleted items folder" would be
way too long!!

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o: Aidan Delaney <aidan delaney gmail com>

Subject: Re: [Fwd: en_GB translation of "trash"]
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:47:46 +0100

On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 11:57 +0100, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> Bruce et. al.,
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 00:06 +0100, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> > Personally, I like "bin", but that has other meanings.
> At the risk of bikeshedding - My general preference would be to not
> change such user visible things on minor or micro releases, but only on
> major releases.  I.e. change on Gnome 1 -> 2 or 2 -> 3 but not on
> 2.30->2.32.  Small changes, such as this, can have a disproportionate
> effect on novice and intermediate users.

Well, GNOME 2.32 is going to be 3.0.

> As to what exactly to call the waste/recycle/bin thingy, maybe the best
> people to ask are the Canonical user design people in London?

They would no doubt suggest the strange and unwieldy "deleted items
folder".