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[Allen Lowe <lallenlowe@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1 cassidy

Allen Lowe


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd say Slingshot should use Name in the normal view, FullName in search,
> and GenericName in tooltips. Window titles should show Name.
>
> On Jul 23, 2012 9:08 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff"
> <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> Following up on https://bugs.launchpad.net/beat-box/+bug/1027742, turns
>> out GNOME is rolling out an updated set of .desktop file guidelines, which
>> can be found at https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectDesktopFiles, which
>> kinda breaks with what we use at the moment -
>> http://elementaryos.org/docs/app-launchers.
>>
>> They follow the same convention as we do, except they've added
>> X-GNOME-Fullname key that combines Name and GenericName. For example, with
>> Midori having "Name=Midori" and "GenericName=Web Browser", X-GNOME-Fullname
>> would be "Midori Web Browser".
>>
>> For one, X-GNOME-Fullname is critical for translations. In English you can
>> just merge Name and GenericName to get the same result, but it's not true
>> for many other languages.
>>
>> The immediate problem with X-GNOME-Fullname is that right now Slingshot
>> prefers X-GNOME-Fullname over other entries, which leads to naming
>> inconsistency even in not-that-foreign apps like BeatBox, Transmission or
>> SteadyFlow.
>>
>> So, the question is - will we use X-GNOME-Fullname too? And, by the way,
>> which of the names should be shown in window title and in Slingshot?
>>
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>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>> OS architect @ elementary
>>
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