[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] The Deleted Items saga

[Yahya Abdal-Aziz]

Hi all,

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 at 21:09:30 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 14:03 +0000, Malcolm wrote:
> > On 01/10/2006, Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Perhaps we were a bit hasty, but we are hardly the first to use this
> > > terminology. It is commonplace amongst mail clients, such as Google
(and I
> > > also believe Yahoo) Mail and MS Outlook. Thunderbird uses a similar
'Deleted'
> > > designation.
> >
> > Google Mail has now switched to "Bin".
> >
>
> The only snag with this is the fact it might be confused to /bin or
> suchlike. Otherwise, it's quite good I think.

I agree about the possible ambiguity.  But is "Bin" the most
universally understandable alternative?  Some others are:
 - "Rubbish bin"
 - "Trash can"
 - "Garbage disposal"
(Funny how each of these words is both a verb and a noun!)

Then there's always "recycle" ...

Regards,
Yahya

Yahya Abdal-Aziz
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