On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 18:55 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Maybe some kind of flow chart? > > If you have a diamond in the flow chart labeled "judgment call" that's > basically going to mean "ask Seth and Bryan" for Fedora Core, but for > all third parties it's going to mean "make up something that we will > have to fix on the Fedora level" > > Maybe an "if in doubt, foo" kind of phrasing based on which answer is > statistically more probable would minimize our work ;-) > > I'm less worried about ISVs (who will inevitably name it "Our Trademark > Here(tm)" no matter what we say) than I am about upstream projects and > Fedora Extras. Upstream projects and Fedora Extras should be right on track with the Name and GenericName spec as it stands, however I think it could be clarified even more to give better "if in doubt" statements. :-) Seth and I will get this up soon. As for Fedora Core, unless there is some change in the spec or behavior of the menu code we'll end up munging the GenericName into the Name for most of the upstream code that is correct according to the spec. The current system and spec work fine except for the case of keeping the standard names intact after 3rd party apps are installed. By copying the GenericName to the Name we fix this on an app by app basis. However if we can change the behavior of the code that displays the names it's better for the GNOME Desktop and Fedora can get this behavior for free too. GNOME protects the name of the standard applications that it considers to makeup the desktop with this new behavior, the same would be true for Fedora. Seth made a good point (although this is not the best one, but one off the top of my head) about this with the Calculator in MS Windows. If for instance you installed a 3rd party calculator called "Sci-Soft Calculator" because you needed a really great scientific calculator on your PC. Should the original Calculator change it's name to be "Microsoft Calculator" now that there's a new kid on the block? Probably not, the calculator that ships with the desktop is already branded by the entire desktop and doesn't need the added branding. It is simply _the_ "Calculator" of the desktop. Especially true if the calculator happened to come from a company that was bought by MS, all of a sudden it would show it's true colors and be the "SCO Calculator" (hypothetical situation of course). ~ Bryan
