Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 14:53 +1030, Tim wrote: > >> One thing I think that either camp could do better is the naming of >> things in the menus. Gnome's idea of putting vague "text editor" >> entries, doesn't make it easy to run a particular application, if you >> wanted to. More so, if you have more than one installed. KDE's idea of >> putting in an entry with just the application's name, which doesn't >> always give any hint to its function, is just as bad. It'd be far more >> user-friendly to list things like "Gedit text editor," or "Gaim instant >> messenger," and so on. > > Ah, but you can... it's a choice in the system config thingie (Control > Center). You can display the description, the application name or both. > So you could have; "Gaim" or "Instant Messenger" or "Gaim Instant > Messenger" or "Instant Messenger Gaim". Depends on which toggle you > select. Except that doesn't work in some fedora-packaged apps that don't properly use Name vs GenericName (ie, they put what should be in GenericName in Name). Offenders include (off the top of my head): Gaim (Instant Messenger) Evolution (Email, Contacts) Ekiga (IP Telephony) Openoffice (Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Presentation, etc...) planner (Project Management) In the past, when I've filed bugs to get that silliness fixed, they were closed WontFix, but let's see if we can actually make something happen this time around... -- Rex
