.bin extensions should be fine. I don't know relevant here but what about /bin?
I wouldn't want any newbie to do a rm * -r -f /bin thinking he was clearing the waste. -- Alex http://archeleus.com/blog On 25 August 2010 21:57, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <jancborcha...@gmail.com>wrote: > About the ".bin" confusion: > No normal user should ever come upon a .bin file (or file extensions at all > but that’s a different story). Everyone that works with .bin files knows the > difference. So, where is the confusion? > > @unforeseen: Compare how often .bin files come up in support cases vs. > how often the word "Bin" is used on any interface to resemble a place > for deleted files. > > If anything, the extension should be changed. But that’s not the point > here. (Although it was quite funny seeing .bin files translated > literally in the German version of the movie Hackers.) > > -- > Deleted Items Folder inconsistently named in en_GB localization > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406626 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu > Documentation Project Team, which is a bug assignee. > > Status in GNOME Common Scripts: Unknown > Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts: Opinion > Status in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Bug description: > The deleted items folder is inconsistently named and is referred to as both > Wastebasket and Deleted items, Ubuntu offers to 'Empty Deleted Items' but > the window is headed Wastebasket. The URL to deleted items is also trash:/// > in nautilus but this is possibly a seperate issue. An effect of this can be > seen in #115661 also. > > This could confuse new users and it should be a simple enough fix simply > changing strings, so I believe it is a papercut. > > ----- > Quoting MPT , see comment #15 for more details: > "trash" is, in UK English, far and away more common than "rubbish bin", > "wastebin", or "wastebasket". > ----- > (The accuracy of this statement is questioned, see comment #28 onwards and > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation/WordSubstitution given in > comment #8.) > > > > -- Deleted Items Folder inconsistently named in en_GB localization https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406626 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
