Terminal desktop file name

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 23 17:55:01 UTC 2011


Am Donnerstag, den 23.06.2011, 10:04 -0700 schrieb Adam Williamson: 
> 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.

I fully agree and I am all for renaming the package and the binary. But
not the menu entry.

> 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 there is no way to mix Name and GenericName.

> 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.

I think a terminal is the most generic thing there is. While file
managers or address books can be pretty different, terminals are looking
all the same and have pretty similar capabilities because they all just
run bash.

Terminals are *very* generic, thus they should be allowed to have a
generic name in the menu.

Regards,
Christoph




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