Rex Dieter wrote:
On 06/02/2011 08:54 AM, Vitezslav Humpa wrote:
> At last Fedora QA meeting John Dulaney had a proposal concerning
the
> issue of similar application names we use around Fedora desktops.
...
> 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?)
The desktop-entry-spec does specify Name= and GenericName= to help
distinguish matters,
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-
spec-1.0.html#recognized-keys
It's just that for various reasons, some desktops have chosen not to
use/implement Name= in menus. I've tried to advocate supporting the
spec for quite awhile...
Here's one really old example,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293851
-- Rex