menus, Name/GenericName

[Rex Dieter]

Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 06:47 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>>Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Movie Player", "PDF Viewer", "Email", "Browser", whatever... These 
>>>names, although perhaps more helpful for those who are unfamiliar or 
>>>less familiar with Linux software, are quite meaningless for those who 
>>>know what app exactly they want to run. What will start when I choose 
>>>"Some player" or "Some viewer" thing? Worse, it changes from release to 
>>>release and from distro to distro... This is one of the reasons why I 
>>>find myself avoiding menus completely and still running everything from 
>>>commandline -- at least I know what I run ;-)
>>
>>Amen brother.  I've harped on that several times.
>>
>>IMO, the correct/proper solution is already available.  The (free) 
>>.desktop standard already allows for each app to have
>>Name=
>>GenericName=
>>
>>So, if Evolution's case,
>>Name=Evolution
>>GenericName=Email
> 
> 
> IIRC that was also rejected, because it didn't work with translations
> when combining the two names (left-to-right, right-to-left text?)

Huh?  What's broken about
Name (GenericName)
and/or
(GenericName) Name
???

Never have I seen it suggested that Name and GenericName be simply 
concatenated.  (Don't forget the parens).

If Fedora doesn't agree with this, they ought work upstream with 
freedesktop.org instead of inventing a new (more broken IMO) 
standard/scheme.

> For non-defaults I think it was decided:
> Name=Evolution Email
> GenericName=Email  (or whatever the translation is).

Which looks retarded for KDE users using either "Name (GenericName)" or 
"GenericName (Name)" menu displays.

-- Rex