What about the menu structure, it's possible to take advantage from that. For example:
Graphics ..... Editor (mtpaint) ..... Viewer (viewnior) or ..... mtPaint (Editor) ..... Viewnior (Viewer) Some menu could have subdivisions: Office ..... Text .......... Libreoffice Writer .......... Abiword ..... Spreadsheet .......... Libreoffice Calc .......... Gnumeric ..... Viewer .......... Evince ..... Others .......... Libreoffice Base .......... pdfsam .......... gLabels 2013/9/21 Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> > On 2013-09-21 05:41, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > ... > > > > If you want to argue for something more like: > > > > Graphics Editor (mtpaint) > > > > that's fine, at least it still includes the program name and so is > > distinguishable from (for example): > > > > Graphics Editor (gimp) > > > > One issue I see here is that, as I currently understand it, these labels > > are in files currently installed as part of each package, so to change > > them, you would want to persuade each package maintainer to make that > > change... which is a LOT of work! Further, if Lubuntu decides that we > > want "Function (name)", but Ubuntu decides they want "Function", guess > > which one most package maintainers will use :) Technically, we might be > > able to maintain our own database of the menu labels we want and use > > something fix them up after installation, but that seems ugly, and prone > > to political trouble from package maintainers who could probably claim > > we are overriding their express intent... > > > > I'd say we leave any package that has both application name and function > > in its label alone, and focus on ones that lack one of those in their > > menu label... just to shrink the scale of the task. > > > > Jonathan > > > > > > I think it would be nice to have something like this: > > Document viewer (evince) > etc. > > But I realize there might be obstacles along the road to get there. > > Best regards > Nio > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >
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