Bug#243375: kdelibs-bin: menu-method freedesktop should set the Generic Name Field to longtitle instead of title

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 03:24:29PM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote:
> That is 79 chars wide! That probably won't even fit on the screen width
> of many systems. I am not sure what happens in that case, whether it
> just wraps the text of displays part of it off the side of the screen.
> 
> There are two real bugs here that you have touched on though.
> 1. Debian menu has no real concept of GenericName

Debian menu do not need to. You can use a generictitle field in menu
file and set up menu-methods to use it.

> 2. KDE menu doesn't display comments as tooltips (Gnome does this nicely)
> 
> If both of those bugs were fixed it would work much better. We could
> have GenericName = generictitle() and Comment = longtitle() or something

You need a $generictitle, but we already have it. longtitle() do not
exist, and generictitle() is not needed, AFAICS.

Add to xdg-desktop-entry-spec-apps
"GenericName=" $generictitle

And start to add generictitle="A Generic title" in menu files.

> 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. :)

LOL

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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