Meaningless name (was: Re: rpms/xchat/devel ...)

[Kevin Kofler]

Owen Taylor <otaylor <at> redhat.com> writes:
> Maybe carefully omitting the GenericName field from the desktop files
> where it doesn't provide information we want in the menus would work.

It would.

I'd argue about the Iagno case though, saying it's a board game does provide 
information. In KDE, there's a "board games" submenu, but 1. I don't believe 
GNOME has that and 2. Iagno isn't even currently in there AFAICS, that would 
need adding some X-KDE-* category to the list of categories (shall we start 
filing RFEs asking to add those categories to the desktop files where it makes 
sense? It wouldn't break anything for GNOME and it would make KDE look more 
organized).

> But is that an improvement from the current situation?

IMHO yes, because that would at least make 3 out of the 4 settings look right 
(Name only, Name and GenericName, GenericName and Name), only the "GenericName 
only" setting would look bad (it would use Name instead).

Maybe the best solution would be to have a boolean which says whether the 
GenericName is useful in the presence of Name or only as a replacement for 
Name, but supporting that needs patching in both KDE and GNOME.

        Kevin Kofler