Comment 4 for bug 310088

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Andrea Francia (andrea-francia) wrote : Re: [Bug 310088] Re: restore-trash crashes if the original path does not exist (even if it's in the same trash can)

Christoph Bloch wrote:
> One more suggestion: Don't name the trash command "trash-file" unless there are absolutely compulsory reasons for it. My arguments against "trash-file":
> * It is not intuitive and therefore unnecessarily difficult to memorise.
> * It is unnecessarily long.
> * Every change in the name of programs causes confusion, so the new solution should be a clear improvement (which it isn't).
> * It is even wrong: Directories can be trashed, too.
>
> Just "trash" was much better.
>
I had a long discussion about that with the fedora people.
The discussion started on:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448122

And it followed in

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg00216.html

I would prefer "trash" as name but they don't allow me to name it
"trash" because "the name is too generic".