Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:3.2.2-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Hi,
while building the new Knoppix KDE CVS I noticed I forgot in my post to
debian-devel to add the change I made to freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps.
We have the longtitle field and we should use it and I think the comment
field is not so good for longtitle as it does not get displayed (from
the desktop-entry-spec: only in tooltip).
However what would work is to use the Generic Name field as also many
KDE-Applications have a comment _or_ a generic name on the package.
As most menu items are not self-explanatory (what is slrn?) it would be
helpful to add this comments by the package.
slrn (Newsreader)
Following patch does that:
--- /mnt/hda3/etc/menu-methods/freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps
2004-04-12 11:32:42.000000000 +0200
+++ freedesktop-desktop-entry-spec-apps 2004-04-12 17:35:43.000000000 +0200
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
"Type=Application\n"
"Encoding=UTF-8\n"
"Name=" title() "\n"
- "GenericName=" title() "\n"
+ "GenericName=" ifnempty($longtitle,replace($longtitle,title() ":", ""))
"\n"
"Comment=" ifnempty($longtitle,$longtitle) "\n"
"Icon=" icon() "\n"
"Exec=" $command "\n"
The replace is for applications, which repeat the title in the longtitle field,
like xeyes.
Please think about it :-).
cu
Fabian
PS: Severity set to important as this can be a huge usability issue.
