[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] Wastebasket/Deleted Items

[Toby Smithe]

On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 08:30 +0100, Dan Bishop wrote:
> 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.

I usually say plainly bin; however, I do sometimes say "waste paper
basket", but I'd agree with anyone pointing out that that's a bit of a
mouthful to have on the desktop.
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