Hmm... How about a submenu? Display the generic name. If there is a
conflict in the generic name, make a submenu containing the names of the
conflicting items. ex:
Web Browser -> Epiphany
Mozilla
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 11:45, Ole Laursen wrote:
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > "Mozilla Web Browser" sounds the nicest. We should find a way to
> > implement that, not do "Web Browser (Mozilla)" just because the spec
> > makes that easy to implement.
>
> At least for Danish, "Mozilla Web Browser" is unfortunately nearly
> impossible to translate to a good menu item. It is too clunky. I
> suspect the same is true for other languages. For instance, I can
> translate it directly to:
>
> Mozilla internetsurfning
>
> But that is not correct Danish. It should be one of
>
> Mozilla-internetsurfning
> Mozillainternetsurfning
>
> That's quite difficult to read. I've resorted to adding a hyphen (with
> the same meaning as comma):
>
> Mozilla - internetsurfning
>
> So for both Epiphany and Mozilla, you would have either
>
> Mozilla - internetsurfning
> Epiphany - internetsurfning
>
> or
>
> Mozilla - internetsurfning
> Internetsurfning
>
> I don't think either is very good. Having lots of hyphens with
> explanations in a menu looks bad.
>
>
> IMHO, it would be better to always show just one name, *always*. Then
> if there are alternatives, make it possible to choose between them,
> like the "preferred applications" control center thing. But don't show
> the alternative in the menu - that's just a waste of the user's mental
> resources. I'm sick and tired of having to read and mouse over the
> Mozilla menu item even though I am never going to use it.
--
Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>
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