Re: Name vs GenericName (again)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le vendredi 25 juillet 2008, à 13:33 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> 
> >> 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 :-)
> 
> I guess I don't fully understand your proposal then. Are you saying we
> should stop translating GenericName and switch to a hardcoded list of
> 'standard' generic names ?

That was the first item in what I mentioned:

===
 + define at the fd.o level some standard GenericName values (Text
   Editor, Movie Player, Calculator, etc.)
===

I don't care where they get translated (either in the desktop files, or
in some library).

Vincent

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