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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Why the K-Menu sucks
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () trolltech ! com>
Date:       2000-10-29 11:09:12
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Sunday 29 October 2000 12:51 wrote Falk Brettschneider:
> Matthias Elter wrote:
>
>  A better solution IMHO is to have a standard entry which in this case
> would be "Mail Client" for KMail and add optional entries with a suffix
> like "Mail Client (Empath)" or "Mail CLient (Evolution)".
>
> I don't think it's a good idea to name it with its description, primary.
> Have you ever seen a menu item for instance called "Cool Drawing
> Application (Photoshop5.5)" on Win32? I don't think so.
>
> But I agree that application names often say nothing about what it
> actually is.
>
> That's why I suggest to do it like this:
> 'KMail    (EMail Client)'
> 'CoolMail (EMail Client)'
>

Bad. This approach doesn't make it possible to removed the application name 
in the common case that there is just one EMail client.

Matthias

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