what is "Document Viewer"?

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat May 9 01:55:21 UTC 2009


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I think you have lost sight of the user here, the average user would see
> "evince" in a menu and have zero idea what it is and does.

The correct thing to write is "Evince Document Viewer" (or any permutation
of this). And the freedesktop.org .desktop file standard says this should
be encoded as:
Name=Evince
GenericName=Document Viewer
Now somebody just needs to fix GNOME not to ignore GenericName, and
the .desktop files to use Name and GenericName as intended by the standard.

        Kevin Kofler




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