Seth Nickell wrote:
On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 10:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>Bryan Clark wrote:
>
>> I made a bug over the weekend to remind myself to fix the HIG on this.
>>
>>http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144284
>>
>>The F.D.O spec seems to suggest that Name is purely the proper name of
>>the application without the description of functionality included. We
>>should align on this issue. My recommendation is to format the Name as
>>"[Proper Name] [Description of Functionality]" and GenericName as
>>"[Description of Functionality]". When two applications exist with the
>>same "[Description of Functionality]" then the Name is used instead.
>
>I'm glad someone (esp @redhat) has seen the light. I suggested doing
>*exactly* this on the fedora-devel list a few weeks ago, and it was
>dismissed.
Bryan and I have discussed this and we're not doing it.
I respectfully disagree, and by not doing it, you're not following
freedesktop.org .desktop guidelines/standards. Please, *please* reconsider.
Besides, in KDE, at least, the display of [Name] and [GenericName] is
configurable, so users can have any of
[Name]
[Name] ([GenericName])
[GenericName] ([Name])
and redhat is free to use the latter as the default.
-- Rex