GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322581
The Trash is listed as Wastebasket in the Add to Panel dialog
Last modified: 2006-07-30 23:13:09 UTC
This bug has been opened here: http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20161 "The Trash is listed as Wastebasket in the Add Dialog dialog - confusing! .. > Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? What locale? Wastebasket is the english term for the trash. What is wrong with it? Is that not coherent with some other string? If that's the case could you point which one use a different label for it? ... I running Ubuntu Breezy (ubuntu-base is at version 0.80), Gnome-applets is at version 2.12.1-0ubuntu1. My Language is set to English (UK and Northern Island). The Trash is called the trash: Mouseover the trash applet Empty Trash action on right-clicking trash applet The title of the nautilus window you see when opening the trash File-Empty Trash in that nautilus window Of course, itś .Trash in the home directory It is called the wastebasket in the Add To Panel box (coming from right clicking on a panel and selecting Add to Panel) only, as far as I can find. Speaking as someone living in the UK, Trash is understood (although no one would use such an American phrase). Wastebasket may be more traditional english but overall I´d call it a Bin. Bin seems to be the popular choice amoungst people around me at the moment. Nowadays, you may call it a wastebasket but only if it was actually a basket of some description (wicker basket perhaps...)."
Adding myself to the CC list and agreeing "bin" is a far more standardised term in Britain than "Wastebasket". Making it lowercase like the en_US locale "trash" would be nice too.
Is there any way the Trash/Bin could be renamed to something else which would work equally well for both British English and American English? Is there some kind of suitable International English. Would "Recycle Bin" work?
The only reason we use Wastebasket is because the other more popular Desktop OS uses Wastebasket for it as well. This is all discussed in bug 83764 (a long time ago). If there are occurences of "Trash" in the UI, or otherwise, when using the en_GB locale, specific bugs about those should be opened. Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83764 ***
Reopening, as the bug has the details in the first entry.
Damn. I seem to have misunderstood the original request, which was for "Wastebasket" to be changed to "Trash". This is obviously out of the question. Re-closing the bug as a dupe of bug 83764. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83764 ***