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[Cassidy James <cassidy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just want to re-base this discussion on Geary, as that's what Dan is
specifically asking about.

I'm +1 on branding it as "Mail" on our desktop. We're sort of in the
process of moving in that direction. That would mean its full name would be
"Mail" and its generic name could be "Email Client" or something (I'm not
suggesting specifics, just that we should make them different). I am pretty
sure we're not moving to make Slingshot display only generic names, and
that's not what this discussion is about.

Regards,
Cassidy James
On Sep 19, 2012 1:36 PM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" <
sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm all for using debranded apps too, but switching to showing GenericName
> instead X-GNOME-Fullname alone is not sufficient.
>
> Okay, let's say we have debranded apps. Now Totem is "Movie Player" and
> Audience is too. What happens if elementary OS user installs Totem or
> Ubuntu user installs Audience? They get two "Movie Player"s with the same
> icons which are in fact different apps.
>
> So *if* we go for it, we'll also have to make Slinghot detect and handle
> such collisions: either show X-GNOME-Fullname for each "colliding" app
> (resulting in "Totem Movie Player" and "Audience Movie Player"
> respectively), or show GenericName for apps that are set as default ones
> and X-GNOME-Fullname for other colliding apps (resulting in "Movie Player"
> for default player and full branded name for the other one).
>
> And please, read "X-GNOME-Fullname" thread in the archives before
> commenting on this further, it has a good list of pros and cons of this
> approach.
>
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary
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