On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 23:41, Bryan Clark wrote: > I've updated the GNOME HIG, adding a section reflecting the situation > wrt the Name + GenericName menu item name creation. Thanks, that clarifies things. > The problem with a cat of Name + GenericName is that it doesn't always > work for languages other than English. I think it could have been slightly more flexible than just a blunt "cat", but that's a minor detail. Probably the solution below works just fine, maybe even better than language specific rules for constructing the labels. > To reflect this problem the HIG > now requires that the Name field use the "[Proper Name] + [Generic > Name]" format where the Generic Name is purely derived from the > applications functionality (like "Web Browser") and the proper name is > one it's project name (like "Mozilla"). Thus the .desktop entry for the > GenericName field is the applications functionality without the proper > name. Ok. Now what would be nice to have is: - An updated version of the desktop entry spec that reflects this, so that the .desktop files will start to come "correctly" already from upstream, and/or upstream will accept patches. I saw you already pinged xdg-list about updating the spec. - A list of approved/recommended GenericName values in order to make the "grouping" (ie. showing only the generic name when no other entries with that generic name are present) functionality outlined in [1] to work reliably. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-names (see below example 2.7, X-Chat .desktop file)
