Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 08:12 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Rahul Sundaram wrote: >>> Jesse Keating wrote: >>>> You say this as if it's a good thing, I see this as another fact that >>>> KDE isn't really designed for the mass userbase. How in gods green >>>> earth is somebody supposed to look at a KDE menu and know that >>>> Konqueror is for browsing the web? That "Kate" is for writing text >>>> files? >>> So why havent we fixed up the menu to be meaningful? >> KDE doesn't *need* fixing, it isn't broke. Konq already (can) display as >> Konqueror Web Browswer >> IMO, the fact that other apps (and gnome) in Fedora does this >> differently by abusing >> Name= >> vs. >> GenericName= >> in .desktip files is bad/wrong/silly/bug. As long as I have any input >> on it, >> * KDE will not go down that road, ever. >> * Packaging Guidelines should be updated highlight/avoid such abuse > Rex, not every design decision made by the desktop team can be reverted > via the packaging guidelines. Committees work best if they don't try to > grab too much power. I just *knew* someone would take my rant the wrong way. (: fdo .desktop standards allow for what the desktop team was aiming for (simplified menus, afaict), but, it's the implementation of said goal that was, imho, ill-conceived. I'm merely hoping to make that clear, and by codifying/clarifying the Packaging Guidelines on the topic to avoid such folly in the future. -- Rex -- Rex -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
