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

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jun 16 19:20:24 UTC 2004


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





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