GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 671436
Add keywords to improve searching
Last modified: 2012-07-30 14:42:42 UTC
The latest desktop entry spec adds a Keywords field to improve searching in the Activities Overview, Unity's Dash, Ubuntu's Software Center, etc. http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
Created attachment 209044 [details] [review] Add keywords to improve searching
Review of attachment 209044 [details] [review]: sounds good
Note that 3.3.x is under string freeze now. https://live.gnome.org/TranslationProject/HandlingStringFreezes
Maybe not the best idea to use the trademarked names for these games as Keywords...
Christian, I disagree. Keywords are intended to improve searching and not for display. We've had this patch in Ubuntu since July and it's what users expect. Also, quoting from the first line of Tali's help: "Tali is like Yahtzee". Mines & Quadrapassel's help says about the same thing and Iagno's strategy help page says Iagno is based on Reversi or Othello.
I must admit that I have my concerns about the names as well. I think we should fix the docs to not mention those names at all. (Tali's about dialog describes the game as "A variation on poker with dice and less money")
My opinion is these games are very similar to the games using the trademarked names, and we shouldn't pretend that they're not. Previously there were issues in using the trademarked names or variants thereof in the game titles and so we've moved away from that (e.g. gnometris). That seems fair as the name might suggest to the user that both the original and our application come from the same creator (we don't want to damage the reputations of that creator). When we make that connection to an existing product we should do that in a way such that it is more of a footnote and not the main point. So for example for Tali the first paragraphs should be describing how the game is played but a footnote like "Tali is similar in style to the popular Yahzee (TM) game". By using keywords and footnotes a user who is searching for that trademark will find our game and a user who thinks "is Mines similar to Minesweeper?" will be able to get confirmation (to not mention this leaves the user in a bit of a grey area - this game seems very similar to X, should it be exactly like X?). It seems to me that there's plenty of existing fair use in this regard, with things like: - Registering keywords of similar products in Google Adsense - Describing products as "compatible with" or "if you are familiar with X then this product will be good for you" etc Obviously I am not a lawyer, but I would much prefer that we confirm to the users that these games are similar, and only remove such references if someone with the appropriate legal background knows this will cause a problem.