Bug 125846
| Summary: | Xchat menu entry should be changed | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg231> |
| Component: | xchat | Assignee: | Daniel Reed <djr> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | hp, nobody+bclark, snickell |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-08-17 21:17:30 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 123268 | ||
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Description
Ivan Gyurdiev
2004-06-12 10:46:54 UTC
Relevant: Gnome Icons, Gnome/KDE Menus need improvement on fedora-devel in the .desktop file there should be a Name and GenericName entry, XChat needs to fix the Name entry. According to the HIG it would look like this: Name=XChat IRC Client GenericName=IRC Client It was suggested that the displayed entry be generated from both the Name and the GenericName, which makes sense to me. See the thread on fedora-devel listed above (Gnome..) Ah you seem to have changed the HIG.. Well... is this final as far as changes go? Maybe you should followup on the fedora-devel thread saying so... hm, I'll get on the fedora-devel list, thanks. Displayed names can be generated for the English language, but cannot in many other languages, the syntax and grammar rules are different. You can't just cat the two together and say 'ok, that's how they do it in German too!' Yes, the HIG was updated because there was no section reflecting the differences between generic and proper names in menu items and how they are constructed. Your changes are still valid for each of the bugs, the Name field is incorrect as it has just been a copy of the GenericName field. In any case it should be "XChat IRC" not "XChat IRC Client". Did I really use XChat IRC Client in the HIG? I'll update the HIG to reflect this. Lets make this name simply "IRC" since it's our default IRC client. It's not like there should be confusion over whether this desktop entry could start an IRC server instead of a client. so Name=IRC GenericName=IRC For an explanation of why the Name is the same as the GenericName and neither has the application name see bug 125848 All localized Name and GenericName entries have been replaced with one generic Name=IRC and GenericName=IRC. "Lets make this name simply "IRC" since it's our default IRC client. It's not like there should be confusion over whether this desktop entry could start an IRC server instead of a client." I really think the program's name should be included. It's really inconsistent if most applications have the program name in their menu entry and some applications don't. I don't like how they changed XMMS to "Audio Player" either, or Gaim to "IM". You dont call Firefox just "Web browser" either. A desktop entry called "IRC" could launch something else then Xchat too, like KVirc or Irssi. With Xchat it might not be really confusing, cause its the only client thats installed by default, but i remember myself looking for XMMS, wondering why it didn't have menu item, only to find out its changed to "Audio Player" instead. grrr. I think the gnome people decided to include the program name only if it's a non-default app. Here "default" is defined as the one that's used by default in GNOME, though that might not be the case for Fedora, which changes some of the defaults. That way the default audio player is called "Audio Player", and if you know enough to install a second one, that one gets a program name. Therefore it's not inconsistent. I didn't like it at first either, but that's what was decided, and I don't care anymore personally. |