All gnome apps will use those strings. If you look under Places->Computer nautilus also uses those names.
Gnome seems to get the names from /sys. For example if I look in /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-5/1-5:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0, the vendor file contains "Generic" and the model file contains "USB SD Reader". I'm not 100% sure where these strings are coming from though. Udev knows what they are because the show up in the /var/log/udev logfile. But I don't know if it's reporting them as it sees them or if it's setting them itself. I found one of the strings in the Linux kernel sources but not any of the others. I have not found them in the udev rules or binaries. It could be that the strings come from the device itself, which would be annoying. I don't know if that helps at all. I only found this out, and the launchpad bug, because one of my card reader slots is mislabeled in gnome (says "Mini SD" instead of "Micro SD") and I was trying to figure out how to change the text string. -- "Generic USB %s Reader" shows untranslated https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/459813 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
