Description of Problem: Since KDE (and GNOME 2?) are moving towards displaying the Comment= desktop file entry in menus, they should be good menu entries. gnome-games prefixes almost every game with "Gnome", so you end up with menu entries looking like GNOME > Games > Gnome Robots Game I think just "Robots Game" would be preferrable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.4.0.1-4 How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install KDE 3.0 in the default configuration 2. Look at the gnome menus in the K menu
What the heck is KDE doing that for? The "Name=" field is for the name of the menu entry, that's why it's called "Name" ;-) Anyhow GNOME 2 displays Name in the menus, not Comment, so this needs to be sorted out on xdg-list so that everyone is displaying the same thing. What does KDE do with the "Name" field?
Both are used. in KDE3, you have the choice between * name * name (comment) * comment * comment (name) If you look at typical desktop files (all KDE, GNOME and plain-X11-with-desktop-file), you'll see that almost all the time, you have something like Name=kmail Comment=Email Client where showing the comment is preferrable.
"Name" should be a good menu name, and "Comment" should be a tooltip. For one take on this see http://www242.pair.com/nilsp/nils/panel/menus.html Anyway if we want to have it configurable whether menu items show up as generic names ("Email Client") vs. application names ("KMail") then we should say that the Name= field will be one of those, and add an additional field for the other; overloading Comment for this purpose is nonsense, the Comment should be a comment, not an "alternative menu name" We need to bring this up on xdg-list and establish how it works.
Fixed on xdg-list.