[Fwd: Re: Gnome Icons, Gnome/KDE Menus need improvement]

[Rex Dieter]

Bryan Clark wrote:
>   I made a bug over the weekend to remind myself to fix the HIG on this. 
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144284
> 
> The F.D.O spec seems to suggest that Name is purely the proper name of 
> the application without the description of functionality included.  We 
> should align on this issue.  My recommendation is to format the Name as 
> "[Proper Name] [Description of Functionality]" and GenericName as 
> "[Description of Functionality]".  When two applications exist with the 
> same "[Description of Functionality]" then the Name is used instead.

I'm glad someone (esp @redhat) has seen the light.  I suggested doing 
*exactly* this on the fedora-devel list a few weeks ago, and it was 
dismissed.

> I can see the possibility of expecting the "[Proper Name] [Description 
> of Functionality]" format to be generated automatically via the way the 
> F.D.O. spec is now, however the code isn't there to support this and I 
> suspect issues (especially in regards to translation) will arise if we 
> try to generate the names automatically.

In KDE, at least, the display/handling of [Name] [GenericName] is 
user-configurable.

-- Rex