[plug] en_GB KDE "trash can"

[John Knight]

I don't mind if it's old. :)

Anyway, Discarded Files isn't too bad but we'll stil stick to Deleted Files 
for now. Why? This is because it IS a computing term. There's a growing 
number of win32 to GNU/Linux converts and due to this, everyone is trying to 
make the desktops easier to use.

There's nothing wrong with this but we do have to draw the line somewhere as 
people are eventually going to have to know these terms anyway (probably 
within ten minutes of using either). There was a discussion on the KDE 
mailing list on whether they should be called "folders" or "directories". I 
stuck in my two cents and said that it should be a directory, as that's what 
they always have been and a folder is what you bung paper in.

The argument here was that a "folder" would make it easier for "windoze" 
converts but I haven't spoken to a Windows user that doesn't know the term 
"directory" (I'm talking to PC newbies here). I tell a lie, one didn't but 
all you had to say was "it's actually a directory and they were fine.

After that rant and dribble, what I'm trying to say is don't underestimate 
them. They won't be scared by standard computing terms as "PCs for Dummies"  
books (of that genre, anyway)and tech support people use  these all the time 
anyway.

>
>Folks
>
>I konw this thread is a lifetime old already .. but, Mr Tomato, may I
>suggest ..
>
>Scrapheap
>Scrap Bin
>or
>Discard[ed] files ?
>
>The earlier discussed "deleted files", tho' clear and concise, still uses a
>computing vocabulary doesn't it ?
>
>I figure Scrap Bins are useful because you can dig around and re-use the
>contents for something else occasionally. Eventually, the computer does it
>for you :)
>
>[OT] Pox on the designer of transfer stations .. the tip is (was) a really
>useful resource :)
>
>Two cents, threepence, whatever ..
>
>Harry
>
>
>>>At 09:37 AM 7/9/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>>> >So .. let's take a summary so far ..
>>> >
>>> >Trash Can
>>> >Recycling  Bin
>>> >Rubbish Bin
>>> >Recycling Can
>>> >Bit Bucket
>>> >Holding Cell
>>> >File 13
>>> >2nd Chance Draw
>>> >Purgatory
>>> >"If you were a real hacker you wouldnt need this"
>>> >Death Row
>>> >
>>> >How about some more options like :
>>> >
>>> >Area 51
>>> >Jail
>>> >Inquisitor's Room
>>> >Foreign Legion Signup
>>> >Garbage Disposal
>>> >Waste Disposal
>>> >Garbage Chute
>>> >Garbage Dump
>>> >Sink
>>> >File Sink
>>> >The Tip (that's pretty Australian :-)
>>> >Municipal Dump
>>> >LSD Trip (wasted)
>>> >Dodo Pen (extinct)
>>> >
>>> >And instead of "Empty" you could have something that matches like ..
>>> >Garbage Dump -> "Land Fill and Forget"
>>> >Foreign Legion Signup -> "Your country calls you"
>>> >Dodo Pen -> "Apply Darwinism"
>>> >Death Row -> "Turn on Electrictity" or "Flip the Switch"
>>> >
>>> >Most obvious suggestion: Give it something generic and boring and make 
>>>it
>>> >customaizable.
>
>


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