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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 1.2-Preview: eyecandy.png
From:       Jo Dillon <emily () thelonious ! new ! ox ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1999-07-28 12:50:09
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Waldo Bastian (bastian@ens.ascom.ch) spake thusly:
> Jo Dillon wrote:
> > 
> > Leon Widdershoven (l.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de) spake thusly:
> > > How do the Windows people call it? I thougt they also use Trash...
> > 
> >   No. Recycle bin.
> > 
> > > But if Trash is not allowed, Garbage would me more logical, well, at
> > > least
> > > more intuitive.
> > 
> >   Garbage sounds both American and ugly to British ears. I quite
> > liked Wastebasket myself, since I suppose Rubbish bin would sound
> > odd to Americans.
> 
> Isn't it i18n'ed? Then the english lads can translate it in some
> decent english word... Like 'trash'.

  Heh. Trash is also American, but you're right of course. Let's
leave these Americans to their silly trademarks then ;)

-- 

	Jo

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