What is the "correct usage" of Name/GenericName in Fedora Land? [...] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Desktop_files | Installed .desktop files MUST follow the desktop-entry-spec , paying | particular attention to validating correct usage of Name, GenericName, | [...] entries. Raises the question: What is "correct usage" of those entries? http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html | Name : Specific name of the application, | for example "Mozilla". (REQUIRED) | GenericName : Generic name of the application, | for example "Web Browser". (OPTIONAL) Raises the questions: Why don't packages adhere to this standard? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=GenericName&go=Go Tells me that this has been discussed several times in early 2007. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FWN/Issue90#What_Should_X-Chat_Be_Called_In_The_Menu.3F (May 2007) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-May/msg02153.html | Kevin also wondered why GNOME didn't support GenericNames in .desktop | yet, which Matthias answered by saying no one had got around to it yet. Is this still the case? - Seems so. GNOME here only shows the Name= entries. How does KDE handle this? Why do we have a policy on "correct usage" of Name/GenericName that would make the menus look ugly. It's not just the mix of Name/GenericName in there, it confuses users, who are not familiar with application names. I would like to violate the guidelines and put GenericName as Name to escape from this. To repeat the question from the beginning: What is the "correct usage" of Name/GenericName in Fedora Land? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
