2011/6/2 Vitezslav Humpa <vhu...@redhat.com> > Hey folks, > > At last Fedora QA meeting John Dulaney had a proposal concerning the issue > of similar application names we use around Fedora desktops. > > For example: surely sometimes you had both GNOME and XFCE installed and > went for menus to open - say a terminal. The environment would use the same > icon and a same name for both gnome-terminal and xfce-terminal, which > resulted in you opening the other app than desired, perhaps (thanks to > Murphy's laws :) ) more often than the desired one. More examples of this > are "Software updates"/"Software update"(just within GNOME), "System > Monitor" for both gnome-system-monitor and ksysguard, some "system-config-*" > utilities vs. GNOME control panel applets and more. > > This is a call for having a discussion on trying to establish some > compromise - on what to put as a name in the desktop[1] file for > corresponding applications around different Fedora desktops as well as among > applications inside each of those. The goal is simply to avoid people being > unable to recognize specific applications around the desktop menus etc., > which we could reach simply by rethinking the "name" fields in the *.desktop > files of such applications. > > The way KDE application launcher handles this also provides nice example > for a design solution to this problem. They use a "Generic" (e.g. Terminal) > field to describe the application primarily and have the name of the actual > binary (e.g. Konsole) present in small letters when the generic name is not > unique. For gnome-shell, in it's current in-high-development state, > proposing a design like this may also be good idea. Other than that - at > least handling this by making a renaming compromise among the desktop > environments would be very nice. > > We were thinking on expanding the release criteria to have one to deal with > this issue, but for sure we need to discuss this first. > > Thus - thoughts? :) (Might be a good idea in having the conversation joined > in one list we are all subscribed - perhaps test or desktop?) > > Thanks! >
maybe if, when positioning mouse cursor over the icon, a popup (or bubble or whatever it's name) containig the real name (gnome-terminal, ksysguard, etc) will show up, all confusion will be gone.
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