Re: Terminal desktop file name
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 18:48 +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
Xfce Address book
Xfce Archive Manager
Xfce Calculator
Xfce File Manager
Xfce Terminal
This is what it's going to be in long run. People who have different
terminals/calculators/whatever installed are definitely the minority and
what we are starting here will make the majority have lots of ugly menu
entries.
I don't think it's really that simple. There is a specific problem here:
Xfce's terminal application is *actually called Terminal*, it's not just
listed as that in the menus. It's a bad name for the application, quite
simply.
There are approaches that can be used in the case of apps that perform
the same purpose and may want to be listed under their purpose and not
their name in the system menus; the Name and GenericName fields exist to
help with this. But if the name of the app *is* its generic purpose,
that's a more serious issue. I don't think you can lump Terminal in with
all those others.
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