Bug 293861

That's wrong when the application is considered the "default" application, which
Totem is.

If you want this done properly, you should consider taking this upstream (ie. to
freedesktop).

Did you read the fedora-devel thread?  It was (quasi) agreed this needs to be
fixed and cleaned up.

Besides, since you played the freedesktop "upstream" card, totem's .desktop file
isn't following the fdo desktop-entry-spec, that defines what
Name=,GenericName=,Comment= fields should contain,
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-September/msg01372.html

or by upstream, did you mean http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ ?  (This
should be something easy enough for you to patch and push upstream).

Heck, I can provide the patch too if you want.

You can battle it out with Matthias if you want. The last changes regarding the
name in the .desktop file have been made for this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=322162

AFAIK, GenericName isn't used in gnome-menus/gnome-panel, and changing the Name=
would mean obsoleting 77 translations, which is absolutely out of question.


(In reply to comment #2)
> Did you read the fedora-devel thread?  It was (quasi) agreed this needs to be
> fixed and cleaned up.

The only thing I can see is people not agreeing on the way it should be done.

> Besides, since you played the freedesktop "upstream" card, totem's .desktop file
> isn't following the fdo desktop-entry-spec, that defines what
> Name=,GenericName=,Comment= fields should contain,
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-September/msg01372.html

Which GNOME doesn't implement/can't implement properly.

> or by upstream, did you mean http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/ ?  (This
> should be something easy enough for you to patch and push upstream).

Is "ie. to freedesktop" not clear?

> Heck, I can provide the patch too if you want.

If only it were correct. All I can see is that nothing's been agreed in the
thread, other than mentions of rogue applications not following the "default"
name convention.

> AFAIK, GenericName isn't used in gnome-menus/gnome-panel, and changing the
> Name= would mean obsoleting 77 translations, which is absolutely out of
> question.

For F8 maybe (string freeze), but for F9 and beyond?

Based on the date this bug was created, it appears to have been reported
during the development of Fedora 8. In order to refocus our efforts as
a project we are changing the version of this bug to '8'.

If this bug still exists in rawhide, please change the version back to
rawhide.
(If you're unable to change the bug's version, add a comment to the bug
and someone will change it for you.)

Thanks for your help and we apologize for the interruption.

The process we're following is outlined here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/F9CleanUp

We will be following the process here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping to ensure this
doesn't happen again.

Still present in (pre-)F9, totem-2.23.0-6.fc9.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Upstream is better I guess, having applications not identifying themselves clearly via it's .desktop file is unfortunate.