menus, Name/GenericName

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Mar 28 13:56:20 UTC 2005


Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

>>Never have I seen it suggested that Name and GenericName be simply 
>>concatenated.  (Don't forget the parens).

> Well I have... on a bugzilla. 
> I couldn't figure out why that is either - I can imagine
> problems if languages read right-to-left, but I don't know exactly.

Right, which is one reason why I think simple concatenation is not a 
good idea, though I wouldn't mind it being added as a display option... 
similar to KDE's options of Name (GenericName), GenericName (Name)... 
(as long as I'm not forced to use it).

-- Rex




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