Fedora 7

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 08:12 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> >> You say this as if it's a good thing, I see this as another fact that
> >> KDE isn't really designed for the mass userbase.  How in gods green
> >> earth is somebody supposed to look at a KDE menu and know that
> >> Konqueror is for browsing the web?  That "Kate" is for writing text
> >> files?
> > 
> > So why havent we fixed up the menu to be meaningful? 
> 
> KDE doesn't *need* fixing, it isn't broke.  Konq already (can) display as
> Konqueror Web Browswer
> IMO, the fact that other apps (and gnome) in Fedora does this
> differently by abusing
> Name=
> vs.
> GenericName=
> in .desktip files is bad/wrong/silly/bug.  As long as I have any input
> on it,
> * KDE will not go down that road, ever.
> * Packaging Guidelines should be updated highlight/avoid such abuse
> 

Rex, not every design decision made by the desktop team can be reverted 
via the packaging guidelines. Committees work best if they don't try to
grab too much power.