[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

Colin Walters walters at verbum.org
Mon Aug 3 06:32:48 PDT 2009


2009/8/2 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> Le dimanche 02 août 2009 à 18:48 +0200, Luca Ferretti a écrit :
>> 2009/8/2 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
>> > The
>> > programmatical approach is an English-only approach that only works
>> > because English is a very simple language that lets you collate words
>> > without changes in pretty much any order and get valid sentences
>> > nevertheless.
>>
>> Chauvinist!!! :D
>
> Well, it's true, that's one of the peculiarities of the English
> language. It made early American computer science easy but it also makes
> it a very poor choice to base i18n decisions on.

Nicolas, if the GNOME panel was adapted for a multi-line approach as
Albert suggested, do you think that would work in most locales?


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