[desktop entry spec] new FullName key

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 22 July 2009, Michael Pyne wrote:
> 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?

for the two line approach, it's obviously not an issue.

for a single line approach, the () or - approach has worked fine for years.

but yes, of course feel free to ask our i18n people.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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