On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:57 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matthias Clasen <mclasen <at> redhat.com> writes: > > So the two of you simply decided that it would be better for everybody > > if the menu item changed from the (somewhat cryptic, but informative) > > "IRC" to the totally meaningless "X-Chat" ? > > X-Chat has a meaning, it's the particular IRC client called X-Chat. There's > several IRC clients in Fedora, including one called xchat-gnome which several > people think should be the default (in fact, I'd LOVE for it to become the > default, not because I actually use it, in fact I hate it, but because that > could lead you to leave the regular X-Chat alone!), so "IRC" is very vague as a > menu entry. Yes, IRC is not a very good menu item either, "IRC client" would be a bit better, except you really don't want "clients" in the menus. But I stand by my claim that X-Chat is totally meaningless to regular users. > > And KDE actually displays "X-Chat (IRC client)" if the user preferences are set > that way. Why does GNOME _still_ not support GenericName years after this > specification has been supposedly agreed on? IMHO, the real technical problem > lies there, mangling .desktop files like this is just papering over the > problem. Because nobody implemented it ? Yes, that is not a great answer, but just ignoring the fact in the name of blind guideline compliance is not moving us forward. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
