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Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Dec 4 18:08:11 UTC 2011


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Yep.  This is a pseudo-bug.  Because of the way people have been
> interpreting the spec for .desktop files, all of these provide .desktop
> files where the name is "Terminal".  So they're all placed on the same
> page. This could be fixed in the .desktop files (Judging from past
> experience, I think that's a losing effort).  Or someone could code up
> some other ways of extracting and reconciling this information.  There are
> other things that could be enhanced in this.  For instance, there's
> currently no extraction or recording of information about applications
> that lack a .desktop file.

Konsole actually has:
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
as it's supposed to by the spec. You need to fix pkgdb: Name ≠ GenericName.

Of course, there's also stuff (such as the other 2 terminals involved) 
stuffing generic names into Name, which needs to be fixed…

        Kevin Kofler



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