Re: Application names in menus

[snickell stanford edu]

Havoc,

Where does the following "algorithm" break down?

if there's a Name & a GenericName:
  menu item = "Name GenericName"
if there's only a Name:
  menu item = "Name"
if there's only a GenericName:
  menu item = "GenericName"

Since the HIG states "Name GenericName" anyway I would expect this to
generally work. We coudln't think of any major cases where "Name
GenericName" wasn't reasonable for the HIG.

-Seth

Quoting Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>:

> 
> Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com> writes:
> > 
> > > Now it turns out the desktop file spec does apparently have some
> sort of
> > > GenericName field. I need to find out the details on this so I
> can
> > > integrate that information into the HIG suggestion.
> > 
> > Yeah, this took me by surprise yesterday too....I didn't know it
> > existed...and having checked out www.freedesktop.org it doesn't?
> Does
> > the draft spec need to be updated? Otherwise it should be something
> like
> > X-GNOME-GenericName, no? I must be clearly missing something :/
> > 
> 
> GenericName was agreed on because KDE was using the Comment field
> for
> that. i.e. they had:
> 
> Name=Mozilla
> Comment=Web Browser
> 
> Now they mostly have:
> 
> Name=Mozilla
> GenericName=Web Browser
> 
> and no Comment at all, which is better.
> 
> For this Red Hat release I determined that there was no sane way to
> deal with Name/GenericName, so we are just always using Name, and
> sometimes making Name be a generic name. It's all screwy as hell.
> Really broken right now if you start mixing gnome and kde desktop
> files. I wrote a whole desktop-file-install tool just so we can
> massage desktop files into a semistandard form.
> 
> Then there's the issue of how Preferences type things are handled,
> etc.
> 
> Needs a lot of work.
> 
> Havoc
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