Am Dienstag, den 26.07.2005, 14:46 +0200 schrieb Luca Ferretti:
> (...lobbying for diverging from "Name Function" pattern for the Name
field of desktop files and instead just providing the applicationn name
in "Name"...)
> Of course GNOME still miss something to merge Name and GenericName in a
> single string when needed (for instance in Application menu) or maybe a
> GConf key to choose between Name, GenericName or a combination ("Name -
> GenericName" or "Name (GenericName)")
I've written a patch a year ago or so which merges multiple apps with
the same GenericName in a category submenu, but
a) multi-level submenus are generally bad. I felt it just didn't behave
very natural
b) there is not really a reason to diverge from with "Name Function"
pattern, which is suggested by the HIG [1] for good reasons. I'd like to
see a use-case here before providing a pref. Power users can quickly see
the app name and newbies are told what it's for.
d) translators generally hate strings composed from multiple sources
because it can cause grammatical headache in some languages.
c) if we consider to allow alternative composed patterns, we can still
provide an ApplicationName field with Epiphany, Nautilus etc..
[1]
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/desktop-integration.html
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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>
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