Re: Gnome desktop files doesn't follow the freedesktop standards

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 21:07, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Colin Walters">
> 
> > I think it makes the most sense to *only* use GenericName by default, and
> > upon collisions (e.g. two Web Browsers), then do something like this:
> > 
> > GenericName (Name)
> 
> AOL. There are three ways to go about it, on first inspection. Assuming that
> if we only had Epiphany installed, it would appear as Web Browser, we could
> choose from the following if Galeon were installed alongside it:
> 
> 1) Web Browser (Epiphany)
>    Web Browser (Galeon)
> 
> 2) Epiphany Web Browser
>    Galeon Web Browser
> 
> 3) Epiphany
>    Galeon
> 
> 1 is kinda ugly. 2 may have i18n issues (mostly because it's just string
> concatenation, without any consideration of i18n). 3 might seem like we're
> throwing away the GenericName goal to some people, but... If you have two
> browsers installed, and we can assume that the user chose to do that (any
> sane distro or admin provided system would only have one), we could also
> assume that they know their names. It also avoids i18n issues.

4) As Colin and I just discussed on IRC, mark the GenericName/Name
formatting for translation.  As in,

g_strdup_printf (_("%s (%s)"), genericname, name);

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Shaun