[Gllug] Trash or Wastebasket?

Richard Turner richard at zygous.co.uk
Thu Jul 7 19:06:04 UTC 2005


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".

Cheers,

Richard.
-- 
"Racing turtles, the grapefruit is winning..."

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