[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Francois Gouget]

Brian J. Tarricone a écrit :
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> For a menu, you could display Name as the menu item's title, and
> GenericName as the tooltip.

The tooltip is already used to show the Comment (at least in Gnome).
If you really want to show the GenericName in the tooltip the solution 
would be to split the tooltip into two lines: show the GenericName on 
the first line and the Comment on the second.

But I think one wants to see things like 'Ekiga Softphone' immediately 
rather than puzzle other what the heck 'Ekiga', 'IceWeasel' or 'Empathy' 
means and have to wait for the tooltip to pop up to figure it out (and 
then try to remember).

Maybe part of the issue is about what name the Name field should be for:
  1. the name of the application? Then it's 'Ekiga'.
  2. the name of the menu entry. Then there's no reason why it shouldn't 
be 'Ekiga Softphone'.

The specification does say it should be the former:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html

    Name: Specific name of the application, for example "Mozilla".

Maybe that's the problem?
What about changing it to something like:

    Name: Display name of the desktop file. For Type=Application desktop 
files it should contain the name of the application. For example 
"Mozilla Browser".


One more note: as far as I can see Gnome makes no use of GenericName.


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Francois Gouget
fgouget at codeweavers.com