Re: Name vs GenericName (again)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 25 juillet 2008, à 13:20 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In GNOME, we generally only use Name. Which mean gedit appears as "Text
> > Editor" and Totem as "Movie Player". Makes a lot of sense to me.
> > However, if you install another text editor or movie player, we end up
> > with something like "Text Editor" and "GVIM" in the menus, or "Movie
> > Player" and "VLC Movie Player", etc.
> >
> > It doesn't really help that much. I'd like to propose the following:
> >
> >  + define at the fd.o level some standard GenericName values (Text
> >   Editor, Movie Player, Calculator, etc.)
> >  + start using those GenericName values in .desktop files in GNOME
> >  + when using GenericName, then define Name as "name of the app +
> >   generic name" or "GNOME + generic name". Eg: "Totem Movie Player" or
> >   "GNOME Movie Player". We do this for translators, since we cannot
> >   automatically concatenate the name and the generic name.
> >  + when displaying a menu, use this algorithm:
> >   - if only one item for some value of GenericName, then display this
> >     item as GenericName
> >   - if two items for GenericName, then display both items with their
> >     names.
> >
> > This way, we'll have "Movie Player" when only totem is installed, and
> > "Totem Movie Player" and "VLC Movie Player" when totem and vnc are
> > installed.
> >
> > Opinions?
> 
> 
> Any approach that is based on programmatically combining name and
> generic name is broken, i18n-wise.

I explicitly mentioned that we don't do this programmatically :-)

Vincent

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