[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 22:53 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 22:27 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> > 
> > > It sounds like adding a workaround in a perfectly fine spec, just to accomodate
> > > broken desktop files.
> > 
> > The spec is not fine here, and your sarcasm doesn't make it any truer.
> 
> This was not sarcastic at all, I consider the spec to be fine on this issue
> (and judging by the responses in this thread, I'm not the only one)

The sarcasm comment referred to the rest of your email....

> > The solutions you propose add clutter to the menus, in the form of
> > parens or dashes, just to cover up the fact that there is no good way to
> > combine the two fields that does not cause translation problems.
> 
> If you don't like parens or dashes, use the more modern two-line solution,
> with the name on the first line and the genericname on the second line.

Ok, maybe I should have mentioned newlines as yet another workaround.

Why is it so hard to acknowledge that if you want to show a piece of
text as one unit in the interface, it needs to be presented as one unit
to the translators ?