[Hamara-devel] App Naming

[Pirate Praveen]

On ബുധന്‍ 18 ജനുവരി 2017 09:49 വൈകു, Vikas Tara wrote:
> The sugam pre alpha looks good, but I find the default names of a lot of
> the apps as not optimal.
> 
> For example:
> MATE Terminal
> 
> I think I only need to know that it's a terminal from the desktop menu.
> If I want to know who made it I can look at the about page.
> 
> I see the naming as both a usability (I have to read extra letters) and
> cosmetic issue that we should rectify.
> 
> There are a number of other apps that have this same issue.
> 
> If others agree, I'll start to raise bugs.
> 

I think this is meant for cases where there are multiple apps, like
GNOME Terminal and MATE Terminal or Firefox Web Browser and Chromium Web
Browser. The solution is to have generic names and full names in
.desktop files and show full name when there are multiple generic names
in the same menu. So if only Firefox is installed, it can just show Web
Browser and when both Firefox and Chromium are installed, it can show
Firefox Web Browser and Chromium Web Browser.

Since this is a useful thing in all distros, I suggest we push this as a
freedesktop.org standard.

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