Re: String freeze break for gnome-packagekit

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:26 PM, William Jon McCann
<william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a high visibility bug in gnome-packagekit that results in the
> WM_CLASS being used as the application name.  A name like
> "gpk-dbus-service" appears in the top bar of GNOME 3 when you try to
> install software.  This makes things look pretty broken.  And is high
> visibility since most people will want to install software at some
> point.
>
> The bug is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=645281
>
> There are other important string fixes in there as well so ensure that
> the application name makes sense.
>
> I think it is really important to fix this for 3.0.  May we?

Also worth pointing out that the patches will reduce the overall
number of translatable strings, since it consistently users 'Software
Install' as the application name in all places, instead of several
different names.