[Fwd: (Security) Fedora Core 1 Update: gaim-0.82-0.FC1] - Wrong Menu Name!!!

[Rex Dieter]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Colin Charles wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:39, Philip Wyett wrote:
>
>> The menu name is wrong with the latest update.
>
> No, its correct -
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125847
>
> Fedora Core 3 will have it called "IM" rather than "GAIM Internet
> Messenger" (or whatever it was called before ;))
>
> Part of the simplification like "IRC Client" or "Web browser"

The freedesktop.org .desktop file standard already has the ability to 
distiguish
Name=gaim
GenericName=IM
or
GenericName=Internet Messenger

This sort of "simplification" of moving the GenericName part to Name is 
wrong/silly/stupid IMO:
1.  It violates at least the spirit (if not the letter) of the .desktop 
standard.
2.  It obfuscates the name/brand of the program/software you're using.

-- Rex