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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    [Bug 157117] Show the menu items in Name (Description) format
From:       Marcelo Sales <mmtsales () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-06-30 1:55:47
Message-ID: 20080630015547.24436.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From mmtsales gmail com  2008-06-30 03:55 -------
Maybe for a novice Linux user, who doesn't yet know the names of the applications \
that can be used for a given task, it's useful to emphasize the description. However, \
for the veteran/experienced user, this is too bad! Even to the novice user it's bad, \
once he/she learns the applications names, for the following reasons: First, one \
never know what description the software author or packager thinks it's nice for the \
software, so one doesn't know what to look for.  Second, the description may change \
from distribution to distribution and even from version to version of the package. \
The applications' names do not change. Third, even if now the applications names are \
shown if descriptions are identical (which is not happening here using KDE 4.0.83), \
some applications have different but equivalent descriptions. For example, here in \
Fedora 9 I have DVD Authoring (KMediaFactory) and DVD Video Creator (DeVeDe).  This \
is too much confusing! I know what application I want, but even then it's difficult \
to locate it on the menu because I don't know what description the author/packager \
happened to choose for it. An option for the user to choose what should be \
emphasized, name or description, is needed. If such an option does not exist, it's so \
much better to use the application name... \
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