[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Michael Pyne]

On Wednesday 22 July 2009 23:48:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 July 2009, David Faure wrote:
> > > 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 ?
> >
> > Why is it so hard to acknowledge that fixing the existing stuff is more
> > important than introducing yet more new stuff? ;)
>
> even more importantly, it would be more new stuff that would need to be
> translated. it would be better to fix the .desktop files which need to be
> fixed because they are broken rather than add yet more work for the
> translation teams.

It sounds like everyone wants what's best from an i18n perspective... but has 
anyone bothered asking for input from translators or their localization team?  
Is FullName a solution in search of a problem or would it help for 
localization?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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