Bug 21465 - GNOME needs a FullName field
Summary: GNOME needs a FullName field
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: Specifications
Classification: Unclassified
Component: desktop-entry (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Allison Lortie (desrt)
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Reported: 2009-04-28 08:54 UTC by Sven Herzberg
Modified: 2019-02-16 12:27 UTC (History)
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Description Sven Herzberg 2009-04-28 08:54:51 UTC 
GNOME displays applications like this: »Epiphany Web Browser«

The reason seems to be languages which cannot simply construct a name like ("%s %s", Name, GenericName).

As this doesn't conform to the specification (and the German translators need consistent .desktop files between GNOME and third party applications).

Currently GNOME has »Epiphany Web Browser« as the Name, while applications like Gimp only have their Name (just like the specification says), they have the generic name in the GenericName field.

So we might need a new iteration on this.
Comment 1 Sven Herzberg 2009-04-28 08:55:20 UTC 
Reference: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501087
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2015-09-18 09:41:49 UTC 
Sorry for the noise, reassigning to new (since 2 years) maintainers (Ryan & David).
Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 12:27:09 UTC 
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