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Bug 590308 - Use correct Name and GenericName in .desktop file
Use correct Name and GenericName in .desktop file
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 592737
Product: empathy
Classification: Core
Component: General
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: empathy-maint
empathy-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-30 19:45 UTC by William Jon McCann
Modified: 2009-08-24 13:21 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Thanks for your bug report. I implemented your suggestion in http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/empathy;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/generic-name-590308 (343 bytes, patch)
2009-08-07 15:34 UTC, Guillaume Desmottes 		none Details | Review

Description William Jon McCann 2009-07-30 19:45:58 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 = Empathy
GenericName = IM Client

or a similar generic name...
Comment 1 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-08-07 15:34:20 UTC 
Created attachment 140121 [details] [review]
Thanks for your bug report. I implemented your suggestion in http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/empathy;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/generic-name-590308

 data/empathy.desktop.in.in |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Comment 2 Guillaume Desmottes 2009-08-24 13:21:35 UTC 
Closing this bug as a dup of bug 592737 as there is a better attached on this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 592737 ***