Hello
I was tracking a bug about KRunner not find results for entries like gimp, pidgin etc. and Aaron Seigo asked to check the corresponding .desktop files. When I check /usr/share/applications/pidgin.desktop, I find that both 'Name' and 'GenericName' entries have "Internet Messenger". Isn't it more appropriate to have the Name as the name of the application (Pidgin) and the above as the GenericName? In fact almost all translations of Name have Pidgin in them.
It seems KRunner looks in Name, GenericName and Keywords entries in the .desktop files. And since pidgin is mentioned in neither of these, it isn't listed. See the bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162497
Can anything be done about this?
regards,
Syam
Sonic wrote:
Can anything be done about this?
The Fedora Pidgin package needs to be fixed. I just fixed XChat a few hours ago. After years-long discussion, it seems we finally agreed on "Name=XChat IRC", "Name=Pidgin Instant Messaging" etc. as a compromise. (The real solution according to the freedesktop.org standard would be Name=XChat, GenericName=IRC or Name=Pidgin, GenericName=Instant Messaging, but the problem is that GNOME still does not support GenericName.)
Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Sonic wrote:
Can anything be done about this?
The Fedora Pidgin package needs to be fixed. I just fixed XChat a few hours ago. After years-long discussion, it seems we finally agreed on "Name=XChat IRC", "Name=Pidgin Instant Messaging" etc. as a compromise. (The real solution according to the freedesktop.org standard would be Name=XChat, GenericName=IRC or Name=Pidgin, GenericName=Instant Messaging, but the problem is that GNOME still does not support GenericName.)
Found the old WontFix bug, re-opened, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293781
Added to distro tracker. Will pull-rank, escalate issue this time if maintainer doesn't conform to established guidelines and policy here. (It's about time, it was originally reported eons ago... by me).
-- Rex
Rex Dieter wrote:
Added to distro tracker. Will pull-rank, escalate issue this time if maintainer doesn't conform to established guidelines and policy here. (It's about time, it was originally reported eons ago... by me).
There's also AbiWord, which is correct in English, but not in the translations: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=294211 Filed eons ago by me, was on F8Target, still not fixed, I now bumped it to F12Target.
Kevin Kofler
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