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Bug 590184 - use correct Name and GenericName in desktop file
use correct Name and GenericName in desktop file
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: rhythmbox
Classification: Other
Component: general
HEAD
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: RhythmBox Maintainers
RhythmBox Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 588975
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-29 19:50 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2009-09-05 07:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Fix .desktop file (744 bytes, patch)
2009-08-26 23:46 UTC, Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 		committed Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2009-07-29 19:50:51 UTC 
As discussed in various places we shouldn't use the generic name in the name
field in the desktop files:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-July/010807.html

We should also have consistency between the Name field, the name used in the
titlebar, the name used in the application menu (gnome-shell, or OS X), the
about box, and the documentation.

Also see http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectGenericName .

Can we change the name and generic name in the desktop file to reflect this?

Name = Rhythmbox
GenericName = Music Player
Comment 1 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2009-08-22 20:08:34 UTC 
As pointed here: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectDesktopFiles and http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-August/msg00117.html , I think It's better:

_Name=Rhythmbox
_GenericName=Music Player
_X-FullName=Rhythmbox Music Player
Comment 2 Javier Jardón (IRC: jjardon) 2009-08-26 23:46:24 UTC 
Created attachment 141805 [details] [review]
Fix .desktop file

It was finally decided to use X-GNOME-FullName, as the key is GNOME specific
Comment 3 Jonathan Matthew 2009-09-05 07:13:31 UTC 
committed, thanks.