Re: Application names

[Dokuro <dario soto gmail com>]

seems fine... :)

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Frederic Peters<fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> William Jon McCann wrote:
>
>> So, in preparation for GNOME Shell and 3.0 a number of us have been
>> trying to address various inconsistencies in how we name applications.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> What do you think? (please read the blog post before answering)
>
> After further discussion on the XDG mailing list and an agreement with
> David Faure of KDE fame, I propose this goal, that will allow to both
> have Name keys suitable for gnome-shell and to keep the current
> entries in gnome-panel.
>
> The guidelines are:
>
>  - If Name is just the application name, leave it alone
>  - If there is no GenericName, leave it alone
>  - If Name == GenericName: remove GenericName
>  - If Name embeds both the application name and the generic name
>   - Add X-FullName, with what was in Name
>   - Set Name to the application name only
>
> <http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectDesktopFiles>
>
>
> Impact for translations: at most a new string for each modules, with
> the application "brand" name (that could be left alone, for languages
> that do not do transliteration).
>
> Impact for documentation: none (once libgnomedesktop gets its new
> "get_display_name()" API).
>
> Is everybody ok to proceed ?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>        Frederic
>
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