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In early UI we can see a Wastebasket, which ended up being changed to the Recycle Bin. As a user I would say that Recycle Bin is a misleading name because it h
by vilius 9y ago
In early UI we can see a Wastebasket, which ended up being changed to the Recycle Bin.
As a user I would say that Recycle Bin is a misleading name because it has nothing to do with recycling a file / folder. However it has a more positive sounding than the weird Wastebasket.
Meanwhile classic Mac OS already had a Trash. Simple, clear and short.
I wonder why Windows could not simply name it Trash? Could it be that they did tried to stay away from copying as much as possible?
- valine 9y agoThat was part of Apple’s GUI lawsuit in 1994 against Microfoft. Apple lost all parts of the suit except for the exclusive rights to the trash icon. Microsoft was forced to replace it with the recycle bin.
- Zardoz84 9y agoBecause Apple would issue again Microsoft about stealing stuff from Mac ?
- TheCoreh 9y ago> As a user I would say that Recycle Bin is a misleading name because it has nothing to do with recycling a file / folder. On the contrary, I'd say recycling is a much more fitting name for what happens when a file is deleted: The existing disk space is reclaimed to be reused for something else.
- theandrewbailey 9y agoAt least with the Recycle Bin, one can joke that Windows is more environmentally friendly than other OSes.
- ubermonkey 9y agoI have to think that the common anti-pattern of naive users storing files they mean to keep in the Recycle Bin wouldn't happen so often if it were still called Trash.
- toast0 9y agoThis is a common user behavior on Macs as well. It's an easy place to put things and find them later (as long as nobody helpfully cleans the bin in the interim)