On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:06 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > William Jon McCann wrote: > > > So, in preparation for GNOME Shell and 3.0 a number of us have been > > trying to address various inconsistencies in how we name applications. > > > > [...] > > > > What do you think? (please read the blog post before answering) > > After further discussion on the XDG mailing list and an agreement with > David Faure of KDE fame, I propose this goal, that will allow to both > have Name keys suitable for gnome-shell and to keep the current > entries in gnome-panel. > > The guidelines are: > > - If Name is just the application name, leave it alone > - If there is no GenericName, leave it alone > - If Name == GenericName: remove GenericName > - If Name embeds both the application name and the generic name > - Add X-FullName, with what was in Name > - Set Name to the application name only > > <http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/CorrectDesktopFiles> > > > Impact for translations: at most a new string for each modules, with > the application "brand" name (that could be left alone, for languages > that do not do transliteration).
Will we get automagic translator comments so that "Rhythmbox" doesn't get translated to "Boîte à Rythmes" in French? > Impact for documentation: none (once libgnomedesktop gets its new > "get_display_name()" API). > > Is everybody ok to proceed ? Cheers _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n