On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > + when using GenericName, then define Name as "name of the app + > generic name" or "GNOME + generic name". Eg: "Totem Movie Player" or > "GNOME Movie Player". We do this for translators, since we cannot > automatically concatenate the name and the generic name. > + when displaying a menu, use this algorithm: > - if only one item for some value of GenericName, then display this > item as GenericName > - if two items for GenericName, then display both items with their > names. > > This way, we'll have "Movie Player" when only totem is installed, and > "Totem Movie Player" and "VLC Movie Player" when totem and vnc are > installed. > > Opinions?
Any approach that is based on programmatically combining name and generic name is broken, i18n-wise. Here is a proposal I came up with earlier when the same question was discussed in Fedora: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-September/msg01503.html _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
