Name/GenericName

[Joshua Eichorn]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Short term as in having to wait for FC4 to have this resolved?  Or 
> will this be handled before FC3 is released?  (The latter, I hope).
>
> For this example:
> Name=Gaim Instant Messenger
> GenericName=Instant Messenger
> which shows silly redundancy (it *should* be Name=Gaim)
>
>> once the
>> menu code is finalized in GNOME then we can continue to go with the
>> f.d.o spec.
>
>
> So, this is only to workaround shortcomings in GNOME's menuing?  
> AFAIK, KDE has no problems dealing with Name/GenericName.
>
Read the mailing lists, just concating Name and GenericName for menus 
doesn't work in many other languages.
Otherwise the spec is broke, I don't know what KDE does, maybe have 
really word names for stuff in some languages.
-josh