Paul Howarth wrote:
These "generic" names have actually been chosen as a matter of policy,
the idea being that users unfamiliar with particular applications would
be able to easily find a tool for the task they want to do, e.g. play
some audio, edit some text, burn a CD. Most newbies wouldn't have a clue
what "xmms" was for instance.
Yeah, I know *why* the choice was made, and I would argue it was a *bad*
one.
The freedesktop.org standard
(http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec) clearly allows for
Name=xmms
GenericName=Audio Player
But redhat/gnome chose not to support/display the GenericName entries,
and chose instead to dilute "Name" entries with generic ones (and thus
hiding the *real* name of the application(s) in question). KDE's
default menu setup shows:
xmms (Audio Player)
If only redhat/gnome would support that, IMO, both schools of thought
would be satisfied.
See also some of my bugzilla entries (err.. rants) on the subject:
gaim: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/132967
xchat: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/133090
abiword: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/171921
-- Rex
