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Generic name is attached to the Name field in the .desktop file
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED
Product:
Ristretto
Component:
Application

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Description trondsg 2008-05-15 12:17:20 CEST
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.7pre) Gecko/20070827 Epiphany/2.20 Firefox/2.0.0.4
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The name of Ristretto is Ristretoo Not Ristretto Image Viewer. So the desktop file
should be like this:
Name=Ristretto
Generic Name=Image Viewer

There are two reasons for this:
1. That's the correct way of doing it.
2. Doing it this incorrect way makes menu software that displays both the Name
and the Generic Name look broken, when it's just following the standard.
Example: I write a menu that shows the programs as Generic Name (Name). For
Abiword it would look like this: "Word Processor (Abiword)". With Ristretto's
broken desktop file it would look like this: "Image Viewer (Ristretto Image Viewer)".


Reproducible: Always




I'm not filing this as minor, as there doing a _reliable_ workaround in the
software following the standards is not easy (especially when localisation is
involved).
Comment 1 Stephan Arts editbugs 2008-05-24 13:10:27 CEST
Good point, fixed in rev 4840
Comment 2 trondsg 2008-05-24 13:47:55 CEST
(In reply to comment #1)
> Good point, fixed in rev 4840
> 

Thanks a lot.

Bug #4085

Reported by:
trondsg
Reported on: 2008-05-15
Last modified on: 2009-07-14

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Assignee:
Stephan Arts
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