[Gllug] Trash or Wastebasket?

[John Winters]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 20:06 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:58 +0100, John Winters wrote:
> > I've just noticed an oddity.  I have two workstations, both running
> > Sarge and both connecting by NFS to the same server for home
> > directories.  That is - if I log on to either I get the same home
> > directory.  If I log on to one of them I have a "Trash" basket on my
> > desktop and if I log on to the other it's a "Wastebasket".  They're the
> > same directory - ~/.trash - and emptying one empties the other.  Why do
> > they have different names on my desktop?
> 
> This is a localisation thing isn't it? Ensuring that your language is
> set to English (well, OK, they insist on calling it "British English" or
> "English (UK)") instead of US English ought to change "Trash" to
> "Wastebasket".

I'd assumed it was something like this, but where would such a setting
be made?  It can't be a per-user setting because the user's home
directory is the same on both machines.  Where and how would a
system-wide Gnome setting be stored, and how would it be changed?

John

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