Rex Dieter:
It goes both ways. For example, Gnome doesn't support the
GenericName part of the desktop-spec, whereas KDE in general doesn't
offer Comment keys.
BeartoothHOS:
I have no idea what that jargon refers to.
If you look at various something-or-other.desktop files, you can get a
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
Not that I am an expert, but I guess the GenericName and
Comment are fields
inside the app.desktop files that are used to provide the
information such as
description when you hover the pointer in the menu. There is a
standardized
specification for
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:37:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
BeartoothHOS wrote:
But for as long as I can remember, there have been two kinds of entries
in the Main menu: ones that will tell you what they are or do if you
hover the cursor over them -- and ones that belong to KDE.
Why the
On Wednesday 30 December 2009 18:26:53 BeartoothHOS wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:37:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
It goes both ways. For example, Gnome doesn't support the GenericName
part of the desktop-spec, whereas KDE in general doesn't offer Comment
keys.
I have no idea what
BeartoothHOS wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:37:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
BeartoothHOS wrote:
But for as long as I can remember, there have been two kinds of entries
in the Main menu: ones that will tell you what they are or do if you
hover the cursor over them -- and ones that belong
*Why* do I get so much more info about Gnome apps than KDE ones,
*who* could change that, and *where* can I make the request and expect it
to be on topic?
All this technical mumbo-jumbo aside. Basically, it's because GNOME
treats the KDE apps unfairly.
Yes, it's lame. Yes, it's a known
I run Gnome, and have a strong if irrational allergy to KDE in
general; but there are several apps (such as Konqueror for man pages, and
K3B) that I use so much that I make sure to get them even if I have to
install all of KDE to do it. I might well use, or at least try, several
more,
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:36:37 + (UTC)
BeartoothHOS wrote:
Do they offer descriptions, which Fedora (a/o Fedora/Gnome) then
suppresses?? To whom ought one address a request for them??
As far as I know, all the descriptions for things are in
the .desktop file entries stashed in
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 15:53:36 Tom Horsley wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:36:37 + (UTC)
BeartoothHOS wrote:
Do they offer descriptions, which Fedora (a/o Fedora/Gnome) then
suppresses?? To whom ought one address a request for them??
Just picking a couple at random, I see
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:36 AM, BeartoothHOS bearto...@comcast.net wrote:
I run Gnome, and have a strong if irrational allergy to KDE in
general; but there are several apps (such as Konqueror for man pages, and
K3B) that I use so much that I make sure to get them even if I have to
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