William Jon McCann a écrit :
[...]
> Also, if we were to use parenthesis in English (and I don't think we
> should) we would want it to read "Ephiphany (Web Browser)".
So, stepping back just a bit, wouldn't it be pretty ugly if the Start
Menu was full of parentheses:
Ekiga (Softphone)
Empathy (Instant Messenger)
Epithany (Web Browser)
Evolution (Mail)
Iceweasel (Web Browser)
Wireshark (as root) (Network Traffic Analyzer)
...
I realize that in English one could 'translate' "%1$s (%2$s)" to be
"%1$s %2$s"; but, as mentioned before in this thread, other languages
couldn't and would be stuck with the parentheses (or dashes which is
pretty much the same). If the parentheses looked ugly in English, then
they would be just as ugly in these other languages. So why condemn
translations to ugliness?
Also, it seems that so far the only obstacle to concatenating Name and
GenericName that has been considered is language aspects. But I'm not
sure it always makes sense to concatenate both, even in English.
An example jumped at me in the above list: Evolution's GenericName is
not 'Mail' or even 'Mail Reader', but 'Groupware Suite'. It appears in
another location as 'Evolution Mail and Calendar', but would it make
sense to set GenericName to 'Mail and Calendar' in that case?
For reference, on my system I have two files for Evolution:
evolution.desktop
Name=Evolution Mail and Calendar
GenericName=Groupware Suite
Comment=Manage your email, contacts and schedule
evolution-mail.desktop
Name=Evolution Mail
# no GenericName
Comment=Read and write emails
Another example would be Wireshark. From wireshark-root.desktop:
Name=Wireshark (as root)
GenericName=Network Analyzer
Comment=Network traffic analyzer
So even in English I'm not sure it's always possible to choose a Name
and GenericName pair that can both make sense when looked at
individually, and when concatenated.
--
Francois Gouget
fgou...@codeweavers.com
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