On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Richard Hughes <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 21 August 2013 15:00, Jasper St. Pierre <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> There are cases where you'd want a different name in an software
> >> center to the search term in the shell..
> > Which case? I think any app that does that is broken.
>
> TrackerGUI wants to be "Search" in the menu, but probably ought to be
> "Tracker" in the software center. Similar for "Videos" -> "Totem".
>
> > I also feel like the system of "describing this application" has to be
> done
> > in a common format by one of other OS vendors. Have we looked into what
> > Ubuntu, OS X, iOS, Android, and Windows do for this? Is it an XML-based
> > format we can share?
>
> I don't think it's worth the pain of interoperability just to share 2
> or 3 fields, but I'm open for ideas if anyone has any more details of
> something suitable.
>

I don't really care about interoperability. it's just that other people
have probably solved all these problems before, and we should study their
solutions.


> Richard
>



-- 
  Jasper
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