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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm +1 to Cassidy. 

Using Full Name in the normal view can yield some really awful truncated results (which kind of cancels out the attempt to show the full name)

If you can't figure out what a default app does between it's name and icon, we should address that as a bug in our app (such as we've recently done with Switchboard).

I'm not sure about anyone else, but seeing some of these ridiculously long names makes me feel like the computer is talking down to me. I'd rather see either the branded name or the generic name. 

But in Search View, where we do include keywords and the like as search criteria and we have a lot more horizontal space, it makes sense to show a longer and more descriptive two line title that includes Full Name and Description, since in a way we're showing why we're matching this result with what you typed. 

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

El jul 23, 2012, a las 8:05 a.m., Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> 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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