GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 329744
gnome desktop menu item 'Evolution' misses description
Last modified: 2013-09-13 00:53:02 UTC
quoting luis from http://tieguy.org/blog/index.cgi/552 : Did a fresh dapper install at work today [...] Was really disappointed to see 'Ekiga' and 'Evolution' in the menus, bare, with no description of what they are, nearly a full year after Miguel talked about the problem with Evolution's menu item at GUADEC.[...] so i guess we need a string change in /evolution/data/evolution.desktop.in.in current state: _Name=Evolution _Comment=The Evolution Groupware Suite my proposal: _Name=Evolution Groupware Suite _Comment=The Evolution Personal Information Manager and Email Client any comments appreciated. luis, CC'ing you, any proposals?
What you need is _GenericName=Groupware Suite , I believe. see the spec: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
ah, thanks for the link. :-) ok, so according to http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#id2449331 i also don't get why we use "_Name" instead of "Name" (same with "_Comment").
i am not happy yet with the Comment "The Evolution Groupware Suite" because stoopid /me still does not know that i can send emails with this application (does every user know what a groupware suite is? no!), but i at least added the _GenericName to cvs: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/data/evolution.desktop.in.in?r1=1.10&r2=1.11 so now it looks like: _Name=Evolution _GenericName=Groupware Suite _Comment=The Evolution Groupware Suite closing this as fixed, i'm going to take care to improve the _Comment though. seems like this is already fixed in ekiga: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/ekiga/ekiga.desktop.in.in?rev=1.1&view=markup thanks luis for pointing on this, see you at guadec. :-)
quoting harish from irc: "'The Evolution PIM and Email Client' looks better". now we have _Name=Evolution _GenericName=Groupware Suite _Comment=The Evolution PIM and Email Client in cvs: http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/data/evolution.desktop.in.in?r1=1.12&r2=1.13 thanks everybody.