with each successive release of fedora it is getting harder and harder for people to actually understand what programs they are working with when they access them through the "Main Menu". Applications are now given cryptic names like "Audio Player" and "Music Player" and "Web Browser" instead of te projects real name. While i recognize that it may be daunting for RH/FC newbies to learn the names of all of these new applications i thought that is why there are tool tips that pop up when you hang out on an entry for a second (as if you were confused). I see 2 ways for the "Main Menu" to work well: 1. Leave the names as is and develop a nice system for setting the programs to run when you click on these generic launchers. (yes you can edit properties but i am saying that if you are going generic you should just essentially make this a MIME type launcher that just opens programs with no loaded file). This MIME editor could be used in nautilus to launch the appropriate program too. What i am saying is combine the mime tree with the "Main Menu". or 2. Put the names of the real applications back on the menu and add as a tooltip the function that you currently have as the name. (e.g. Xmms TOOLTIP: "Audio Player") so people actuall know what they are launching instead of the current "jack in the box" style suprise. Right now i believe we are sitting on the fence and all parties are suffering as a result. If this bug is unintelligible please let me know and ill try to rephrase it more licidly.
Is the currect practice of naming something by both the project name and the generic name a good compromise? For example Firefox Web Browser and Evince Document Viewer. Note that the name is defined in the .desktop file of the package, so to suggest fixes to specific applications file bugs against them.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Unfortunately i use another distribution for my desktops these days and use FCX exclusively as a web server product so i don't have desktops installed on them. I don't know if this is still an issue or if this was ever a real issue for other people besides myself. Marking as DEFERRED.