Re: [Fwd: Re: Gnome Icons, Gnome/KDE Menus need improvement]

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Seth Nickell wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> > Bryan Clark wrote:
> >
> > >  I made a bug over the weekend to remind myself to fix the HIG on this. 
> > >
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144284
> > >
> > > The F.D.O spec seems to suggest that Name is purely the proper name of 
> > > the application without the description of functionality included.  We 
> > > should align on this issue.  My recommendation is to format the Name as 
> > > "[Proper Name] [Description of Functionality]" and GenericName as 
> > > "[Description of Functionality]".  When two applications exist with the 
> > > same "[Description of Functionality]" then the Name is used instead.
> >
> > I'm glad someone (esp @redhat) has seen the light.  I suggested doing 
> > *exactly* this on the fedora-devel list a few weeks ago, and it was 
> > dismissed.
>
>
> Bryan and I have discussed this and we're not doing it. 

I respectfully disagree, and by not doing it, you're not following 
freedesktop.org .desktop guidelines/standards.  Please, *please* reconsider.

Besides, in KDE, at least, the display of [Name] and [GenericName] is 
configurable, so users can have any of
[Name]
[Name] ([GenericName])
[GenericName] ([Name])
and redhat is free to use the latter as the default.

-- Rex