On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 05:58:35PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Torquil Macdonald Sørensen (torq...@gmail.com) wrote:
> > Package: iceweasel
> > Version: 3.0.4-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > I have my KDE menu set to use "Name only" for all applications, but it 
> > still says
> > "Iceweasel Web Browser" in the menu. It should only say "Iceweasel". When I 
> > change
> > to use the format "Description (Name)", nothing happens to the menu item.
> 
> So at some point the prevailing wisdom was to include the GenericName
> in the Name, so this is why it shows this. This may have been a bit of
> Gnome specific advice and
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s05.html
> doesn't mention it (though it doesn't forbid it either). If you can
> find some support for your position I would be happy to change it.

It seems that wisdom changed. See epiphany, for example:
Name=Epiphany
GenericName=Web Browser
and an extended field was added:
X-GNOME-FullName=Epiphany Web Browser

I committed a similar change on my local branch.

Mike



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