On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> redhat.com> writes:
> So the two of you simply decided that it would be better for everybody
> if the menu item changed from the (somewhat cryptic, but informative)
> "IRC" to the totally meaningless "X-Chat" ?
X-Chat has a meaning, it's the particular IRC client called X-Chat. There's
several IRC clients in Fedora, including one called xchat-gnome which several
people think should be the default (in fact, I'd LOVE for it to become the
default, not because I actually use it, in fact I hate it, but because that
could lead you to leave the regular X-Chat alone!), so "IRC" is very vague as a
menu entry.
Yes, IRC is not a very good menu item either, "IRC client" would be a
bit better, except you really don't want "clients" in the menus. But I
stand by my claim that X-Chat is totally meaningless to regular users.
And KDE actually displays "X-Chat (IRC client)" if the user preferences are set
that way. Why does GNOME _still_ not support GenericName years after this
specification has been supposedly agreed on? IMHO, the real technical problem
lies there, mangling .desktop files like this is just papering over the
problem.
Because nobody implemented it ? Yes, that is not a great answer, but
just ignoring the fact in the name of blind guideline compliance is not
moving us forward.