Re: Meaningless name (was: Re: rpms/xchat/devel ...)

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 14:19 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 19:46 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le vendredi 01 juin 2007 à 06:58 -0400, Owen Taylor a écrit :
> > >  What we'd presumably like is something like:
> > > 
> > >  Thunderbird Email
> > >  Abiword Word Processor
> > >  GNOME Terminal
> > >  Character Map
> > >  Iagno
> > 
> > English-centric concatenation rule that won't work for other languages
> 
> Perhaps using a bit of (inconspicuous) punctuation for those languages
> would fix:
> 
>  Epiphany - Navigateur Web
> 
> Or we could have a single translatable item that is a format string for
> concatenating GenericName and Name, though I'd worry about issues of
> agreement, and I think there is value in keeping the Name in front
> for quick scanning.
> 
> What doesn't make sense to me is that the Fedora French translation
> team would have to, for every single desktop file, individually
> concatenate the name and generic name in a linguistically sensitive
> manner :-)
> 

I agree that the only way to make this work with translations is to add
a new field, e.g. FullName, and allow placeholders:

FullName=%{Name} %{GenericName}
FullName[fr_FR]=%{Name} - %{GenericName}