+1 cassidy Allen Lowe
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Cassidy James <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd say Slingshot should use Name in the normal view, FullName in search, > and GenericName in tooltips. Window titles should show Name. > > On Jul 23, 2012 9:08 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> Following up on https://bugs.launchpad.net/beat-box/+bug/1027742, turns >> out GNOME is rolling out an updated set of .desktop file guidelines, which >> can be found at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectDesktopFiles, which >> kinda breaks with what we use at the moment - >> http://elementaryos.org/docs/app-launchers. >> >> They follow the same convention as we do, except they've added >> X-GNOME-Fullname key that combines Name and GenericName. For example, with >> Midori having "Name=Midori" and "GenericName=Web Browser", X-GNOME-Fullname >> would be "Midori Web Browser". >> >> For one, X-GNOME-Fullname is critical for translations. In English you can >> just merge Name and GenericName to get the same result, but it's not true >> for many other languages. >> >> The immediate problem with X-GNOME-Fullname is that right now Slingshot >> prefers X-GNOME-Fullname over other entries, which leads to naming >> inconsistency even in not-that-foreign apps like BeatBox, Transmission or >> SteadyFlow. >> >> So, the question is - will we use X-GNOME-Fullname too? And, by the way, >> which of the names should be shown in window title and in Slingshot? >> >> -- >> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff >> OS architect @ elementary >> >> -- >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
