[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Colin Walters]

2009/8/3 Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>:
> Le lundi 03 août 2009 à 13:36 +0000, Colin Walters a écrit :
>
>> Concretely what I suggest is this:
>>
>> o GNOME 2.28 panel is adapted to have multiple lines (default
>> GenericName/Name?  Dunno...my take would be Name/GenericName in North
>> America given that most Name is only meaningful in English, reverse
>> outside)
>> o If writing a *new* .desktop file, and you don't care a lot about
>> older OSes, set Name=Epiphany, GenericName=Web Browser
>> o If writing a new .desktop file, and you DO care, well...kind of a mess =/
>> o For an existing .desktop file which has Name=Epiphany Web Browser,
>> add a new entry ShortName=Epiphany  (maybe we call it AppName?)
>
> If anything needs “Epiphany Web Browser” please put “Epiphany Web
> Browser” in a translatable key, period.

Well with this suggestion, it would only be older GNOME releases that
would need the full key, and we would not be breaking compatibility
with any translations which had a Name+GenericName value for the Name
field.