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Idea #10321: same name for functions in all programs



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Written by shovelhead the 26 Jun 08 at 08:55. Category: Look and Feel.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Stop naming it "erase" in one half of the programms and "send to trash*" in the other half.

I use two foreign-language versions of ubuntu (German and French). To get rid of a file, I generally right-click and chose "erase" from the menu. This doesn't work half of the time, because the function is inexistant; they now call it "send to trash*".

The actual names in german and french are

- löschen // in den Müll verschieben

- effacer // envoyer à la poubelle

It makes life a lot more difficult and I stumble over that error every time, when I just want to erase a file and I just cant't find the erase function. I want to get rid of something; I don't want to move the trash around - I want it to dissappear - and I want a word for it - ONE WORD! - in the right-click menues.

please name that function "erase // löschen // efacer // ..." in every language and in every program - make it even a criteria for packages to make it into the repos. I am shure we all know, that there is a trash/dustbin and how it works.

* I do NOT know, how these two versions are called in english as I do NOT hava an english system at hand. You may call it "send to trash" or "move to dustbin" or "dump it in the symbol at the lowest, rightmost corner" or .... you got it!

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Mårten Woxberg wrote on the 26 Jun 08 at 20:21
Does it do the same?

I run the Swedish version of Ubuntu
and I have "Move to trash / Flytta till papperskorgen" and "Delete file / Ta bort fil".

One moves it to the trash the other removes it from the filesystem without going through the trash.

If the functionality is the same, please report bugs in those applications that behave different from the norm.

shovelhead wrote on the 6 Jul 08 at 11:47
Hi Marten,

yes, I think it behaves the same as objects "erased" also end up in the trashbin... I don't see a different behaviour

Stefan



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