Re: Fedora 7: .desktop files, Name vs. GenericName
Matthias Clasen wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 08:12 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> You say this as if it's a good thing, I see this as another fact that
>>> KDE isn't really designed for the mass userbase. How in gods green
>>> earth is somebody supposed to look at a KDE menu and know that
>>> Konqueror is for browsing the web? That "Kate" is for writing
text
>>> files?
>> So why havent we fixed up the menu to be meaningful?
> KDE doesn't *need* fixing, it isn't broke. Konq already (can) display as
> Konqueror Web Browswer
> IMO, the fact that other apps (and gnome) in Fedora does this
> differently by abusing
> Name=
> vs.
> GenericName=
> in .desktip files is bad/wrong/silly/bug. As long as I have any input
> on it,
> * KDE will not go down that road, ever.
> * Packaging Guidelines should be updated highlight/avoid such abuse
Rex, not every design decision made by the desktop team can be
reverted
via the packaging guidelines. Committees work best if they don't try to
grab too much power.
I just *knew* someone would take my rant the wrong way. (:
fdo .desktop standards allow for what the desktop team was aiming for
(simplified menus, afaict), but, it's the implementation of said goal
that was, imho, ill-conceived. I'm merely hoping to make that clear,
and by codifying/clarifying the Packaging Guidelines on the topic to
avoid such folly in the future.
-- Rex
-- Rex