On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:15 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le vendredi 25 juillet 2008, à 15:58 +0300, Karl Lattimer a écrit : > > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 14:52 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > In GNOME, we generally only use Name. Which mean gedit appears as "Text > > > Editor" and Totem as "Movie Player". Makes a lot of sense to me. > > > However, if you install another text editor or movie player, we end up > > > with something like "Text Editor" and "GVIM" in the menus, or "Movie > > > Player" and "VLC Movie Player", etc. > > > > > > It doesn't really help that much. I'd like to propose the following: > > > > > > + define at the fd.o level some standard GenericName values (Text > > > Editor, Movie Player, Calculator, etc.) > > > + start using those GenericName values in .desktop files in GNOME > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426196 > > > > I provided this patch an ice age ago to let us edit the generic name tag > > easily by modifying the place in the gnome panel where the .desktop file > > editing occurs. > > > > If we apply this patch then at least we'll have a feature exposed in the > > UI. Then its not exactly a difficult matter of editing the files. > > > > Can we include this patch in 2.24 then worry about the rest for 2.26? > > We don't use GenericName anywhere so making it editable wouldn't help us > for now.
It is currently used in GNOME main menu. Plus we don't want to end up in a cart before the horse situation, if we make it editable, then people can edit it ready for when it becomes a feature. BR, K _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
