GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 440012
gparted menu entry is not HIG compliant
Last modified: 2008-04-09 18:57:52 UTC
gparted menu entry is not HIG compliant. Here is the current menu entry:" Name=GParted Comment=GNOME Partition Editor " According to HIG menu item name should be a functional description of the program. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-names Also according to HIG the tooltip (Comment field) should be phrased as an imperative verb. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-tooltips I think "name=Partition Editor" would be a better and HIG compliant menu item name. Also according to HIG the tooltip (Comment field) should be phrased as an imperative verb. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/desktop-integration.html#menu-item-tooltips "GNOME Partition Editor" is not phrased as an imperative verb. Other information:
Note that in addition to the above, the .desktop file is not compliant to the freedesktop.org Desktop Entry Specification v1.0: - the encode field is deprecated - the icon should be extension-less - Application is not a correct Category
This .desktop file should be ok. [Desktop Entry] Name=Partition Editor Comment=Manage your partitions Exec=gksu gparted Icon=gparted Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=GNOME;System; StartupNotify=true
Thank you everyone for the detailed notes, hyper links, and sample desktop file regarding this issue. These suggestions have been taken into consideration and applied to the new code repository at SourceForge. (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/svn.php). Regards, Curtis Gedak
Rolled HIG code changes back to 0.3.3, and hence re-opened this bug. I encountered difficulties with international language translation after making the suggested changes. Not wishing to hold up a new release (0.3.5) of gparted, I have backed out the changes. I will review these changes later when I have a better understanding of international language translation. Sincerely, Curtis Gedak
Thank you for your patience. Now, with a stronger understanding of international language translation I have surpassed the earlier difficulties I experienced. These changes have been committed to the gparted gnome repository for inclusion in the next release.