Comment 10 for bug 406626

This issue is the result of an ill-conceived (and I take partial responsibility for this) and inconsistently implemented policy.

The problem we face is that different upstreams have different names for their waste receptacles. To take GNOME and KDE (the largest desktop projects) as a reference:

  * http://live.gnome.org/BritishEnglish
  * http://l10n.kde.org/team-infos.php?teamcode=en_GB

As you can see, GNOME uses "wastebasket" and KDE uses "wastebin". So if we leave the strings untranslated we're going to see an inconsistency.

Using "Trash" is ill-advised for the following reasons:

  * we would have to manually rename the "wastebasket" and "wastebin" references from upstream
  * we would be introducing yet another synonym for the same thing
  * "Trash" sounds foreign (if you disagree, you can always use en_US)

Having lived through and participated in the debates that introduced the "Deleted Items" option, I now think the best way forwards is to fix things upstream. The KDE and GNOME choices are already prevalent, so I suggest that we work with the translation teams from both those projects and encourage them to agree on one. By fixing it upstream, we benefit other distributions as well and eliminate the need for the Ubuntu en_GB team to do any work.