> I had previously forgotten to remove the GenericName entry from the > menu-methods which caused the bad looking GenericName (Name) display > duplication. I had enabled it only for testing and forgot to remove it. > However, I believe misusing GenericName = longtitle() is a usability > issue as well. GenericName is supposed to be Generic, not a really long > description of the program. > > Here is an example debian .menu file I saw on my system: > > ?package(xbase-clients):\ > needs=x11\ > section=Apps/Tools\ > hints="Screenshot"\ > longtitle="X Window Snapshot: take snapshot of any X window (xwd|xwud)"\ > title="X Window Snapshot"\ > command="xwd | xwud" > > With GenericName misused as above the default KDE setup would display: > > X Window Snapshot: take snapshot of any X window (xwd|xwud) (X Window > Snapshot)
Yes, but at least KDE does then display: X Window Snapshot (take snapshot of any ...) So it "wraps" it nicely. (But dunno about gnome) > > There are two real bugs here that you have touched on though. > 1. Debian menu has no real concept of GenericName > 2. KDE menu doesn't display comments as tooltips (Gnome does this nicely) Yes. I didn't knew that Gnome supported that. > > If both of those bugs were fixed it would work much better. We could > have GenericName = generictitle() and Comment = longtitle() or something > similiar to that. I look forward to the time when Debian will convert to > the freedesktop menu standards so that the integration will be much > smoother. :) :-) cu Fabian
