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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: collation of desktop spec issues
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-03-20 14:55:14
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On Wednesday 20 March 2002 15:42, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:  
> > k) 
> >  Add clarification of Name/Comment meaning, should be:
> >   Name: name of the application, should be one-three words typically
> >   Comment: "tooltip" for the application, explaining in perhaps 3-10
> >            words what the application does
> > 
> >   (GNOME plan here is at http://www242.pair.com/nilsp/nils/panel/menus.html)
> > 
> 
> Bero pointed out to me that KDE 3 is not using these fields as above.
> Instead for KDE "Name" means "specific application menu name" and
> "Comment" means "generic application menu name". So e.g.:
>  
>   Name=KMail
>   Comment=Email Client

Right. KMail _is_ the name of the application.

> Then apparently it's configurable which of these to display in the menu?

Not really, you can choose between "KMail" and "KMail (Email Client)" AFAIK.
You can't just have the comment shown, for the reason described below.

> I suggest that we clarify:
> 
>    Name: generic user-friendly name of the application to appear in
>          menus, such as "Web Browser"
>    Comment: "tooltip" for the application, explaining in perhaps 3-10
>             words what the application does, for example 
>             "View Internet web sites"
>    AdvancedName: specific application name, such as "Mozilla"
> 
> This adds the new AdvancedName field.

This would lead to 5 "Web Browser" menu entries, when having Konqueror, Mozilla,
Galeon, Netscape and Mozilla installed....
The "advanced" name is not that advanced that it should be hidden from the menu.
It's the way for a user to recognize the application, it's the most important one.

I think we should have
Name: the application name, e.g. Mozilla
Comment: a short description (it mustn't be too long since it goes into a menuitem),
                e.g. "Web Browser"
Tooltip: a longer explanation, "View Internet web sites".

This adds tooltips for tooltips, explicitely, but leaves comment for something short
enough to fit into a menuitem.

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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