Re: [evolution-patches] String freeze-breaking patch: Make evo desktop file HIG 2.0-compliant

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Sonntag, den 29.08.2004, 07:45 -0400 schrieb Rodney Dawes:
> As JP stated, we prefer to use "Evolution" simply. As for the HIG,
> that's a pretty sad argument, since the only applications in my menu
> which seem to actually honor that, are the ones that would generally
> contain "Gnome" before them.

gnumeric, abiword, planner, mergeant, epiphany, galeon, rhythmbox,
muine, sound-juicer, totem, aislerot, freecell, gthumb, ggv, inkscape -
just to enum some of them, they all use the pattern "<appname>
<descriptive info>".

> The term "Groupware" causes more confusion than help, so I'd rather we
> leave it out.

It gives users at least a clue what it is all about, at least it does
for me - although I must admit, that it isn't 100% fitting, I can't come
up with anything better.
Do you lose anything by adding it?

> After 2.0, we will split up the menu items a little more, and will
> have different entries for each component.

That's not the point. We're talking about the monolithic component
shell, not about post-2.0/2.8 stuff.

> This patch should not go into 2.0.

Isn't a little bit of adaption to the rest of the desktop adequate when
an application is included in the desktop release?

regs,
 Chris

> M�ht , 2004-08-28 at 01:36 +0200, Christian Neumair ka shkruar:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 26.08.2004, 18:26 +0100 schrieb Andrew Sobala:
> > > On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:49 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 16:26 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > > > I've modified the evolution desktop file to match the naming pattern
> > > > > proposed by the HIG 2.0. Note that the string "Evolution Groupware
> > > > > Suite" wasn't marked for translation before, so this forms a string
> > > > > freeze breakage, and therefore needs approval by the release team and by
> > > > > the evo team.
> > > > 
> > > > I'd prefer this just to say "Evolution" for name, otherwise it seems
> > > > awkward in the menus.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Please read the HIG :)
> > > 
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-names
> > > 
> > > "Evolution" really doesn't tell the user what the program does, so this
> > > patch is correct.
> > 
> > Any news on the patch?
> > 
> > regs,
> >  Chris
> 
> 
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