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

[Robert McMeekin <rrm3 rrm3 org>]

Jeff Waugh wrote:
[...]
> 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.

While one is ugly (people could probably get used to it, like they
got/are getting used to GenericName), it's also the only option that can
really convey that a user has two different applications for doing the
same thing.  I agree with your assertion that joe user will probably
know about the two browsers he has installed though.  Not that my 
opinion should matter at all (I'm sorry for writing this, please don't 
hate me).

NAME                   |  INITIAL REACTION
                       |
Epiphany Web Browser   |  An application for Epiphany-style Web Browsing
                       |  (one can assume ``Epiphany'' is used as an
                       |  adjective)
                       |
Epiphany               |  Application does something relating to A
                       |  church festival celebrated on the 6th of
                       |  January, and it's in the ``Internet''
                       |  category
                       |
Web Browser (Epiphany) |  ``Epiphany'' used in apposition as if to
                       |  answer ``Which web browser?''

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Robert McMeekin <rrm3 rrm3 org>