[Libreoffice] X-GNOME-FullName: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37996

[Caolán McNamara]

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 00:23 +0800, imacat wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>     Hi.  This is imacat from Taiwan.  I received a mail from some friend
> in Canonical, Taiwan.  What do you think about this, to change the title
> from "LibreOffice Calc" to "LibreOffice Calc Spreadsheet"?
> 
>     I know that this is technically very easy.  The problem is:  Is this
> appropriate?

Well, FWIW the .desktop spec is at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
There is a "Name" field and a "Genericname" field, we do set the Name
field as suggested there, e.g. "Specific name of the application, for
example "Mozilla".", while we do set the Genericname to "Spreadsheet"
for calc, along the "Generic name of the application, for example "Web
Browser"." recommendation.

I do see that on RHEL-6 we tweaked e.g. the firefox .desktop to use
"Name=Firefox Web Browser" while on Fedora 16 we use "Name=Firefox" so
in practice the fashion changes every now and then, but not
consistently, so it ends up a bit of a mess, never one way or the
other :-(

I see from the bug-title you list that some thinking is floats towards
an *additional* tag in the .desktop files for the long name, e.g.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectDesktopFiles

I'm a little dubious that X-GNOME-FullName is still a "desirable" tag,
e.g. my GNOME-3 desktop doesn't seem to use it, but I can't see any real
objection to add X-GNOME-FullName entries to our .desktop files if it
would be used/useful if you want to do that.

Alternatively, I doubt there would be much of an objection to change the
translations of the "Name" field to include a generic term for at least
the languages which don't use a Latin script.

C.