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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: "Comment" field in app's .desktop files
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date:       2006-04-07 10:07:29
Message-ID: 443639E1.2020004 () iidea ! pl
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Rex Dieter said the following, On 2006-04-06 14:42:

> Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> 
>>http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125005
>>
>>Is this true we should add Comment field? Or just switch from GenericName to 
>>Comment?
> 
> 
> It appears the bugreport is more about empty Comments, ie,
> Comment=
> for which gnome produces an error (a GNOME bug, IMO).
> 
> But, the submitter has a point that koffice's .desktop files should have
> some form of Comment.  I don't think Comment should take over what is
> currently used for GenericName, however.  Note the "should not be
> redundant" part of:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s04.html
> which says:
> GenericName: Generic name of the application, for example "Web Browser".
> Comment: Tooltip for the entry, for example "View sites on the
> Internet", should not be redundant with Name or GenericName.

Thanks for these notes; adding such field doesn't harm, so I guess I will add 
the following for Kexi 1.1 and later:

Comment=Develop desktop database applications

BTW, Other KOffice developers: I propose to do the same for other apps, 
eventually post proposals here.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam,
  Jaroslaw Staniek / OpenOffice Polska

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