[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Wastebasket/Deleted Items

[Dan Bishop]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 08:26 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:52 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 15:42, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> > > Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > > > [snip]
> > > >
> > > > The GNOME and KDE teams have agreed on some conventions regarding the
> > > > "Trash" moniker:
> > > >
> > > > " Trash should be translated to Wastebin when referring to the
> > > > desktop/file manager. Other situations can use either 'Wastebin' or
> > > > 'Deleted Items' as seems most appropriate (KMail uses Deleted Items).
> > > > Beware of Trash being used as a verb which should be translated as 'Move
> > > > to Wastebin'. "
> > > >
> > > > Their respective home pages are at:
> > > >   http://live.gnome.org/BritishEnglish
> > > >   http://kde.me.uk/index.php?page=kde-en-gb
> > >
> > > You've quoted the KDE version; the GNOME page states "Wastebasket", not
> > > "Wastebin".  Can we influence these upstreams in any way about our Deleted
> > > Items thinking?  I can certainly ping Jonathan Riddell and see what he
> > > thinks.
> > 
> > Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out. On a quick glance, the paragraphs looked 
> > identical. I didn't notice the Wastebin/Wastebasket distinction.
> > 
> > I definitely would like to move such a change upstream. I don't see any point 
> > in GNOME and KDE using different names for the same thing.
> 
> Also I think that this would be good for consistency. Even in different
> DEs, I believe that the term should be the same.

I agree, but does anyone really say wastebasket or wastebin? I know I
don't. I'd always say simply bin.

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