> Huh? What's broken about > Name (GenericName) > and/or > (GenericName) Name > ??? > > 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. > If Fedora doesn't agree with this, they ought work upstream with > freedesktop.org instead of inventing a new (more broken IMO) > standard/scheme. I think it was the freedesktop people that pointed this out. I even saw a beta standard somewhere including that. You'll make me dig this up, but I don't have time right now - I will post some links later. > > For non-defaults I think it was decided: > > Name=Evolution Email > > GenericName=Email (or whatever the translation is). > > Which looks retarded for KDE users using either "Name (GenericName)" or > "GenericName (Name)" menu displays. Well, I use GNOME, so I don't know about that. Anyway, as a proof that I'm not dreaming all of this look at the Firefox and Gnumeric menu entries. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cornell University
