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Re: who decides on naming Epiphany 'GNOME We Browser'?



Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

Hi,
Under the Help menu, on the about opetion, I see that it's stated
'GNOME Web Browser' instead of 'Epiphany'. Is this an upstream
decision or Debian. The problem is that this behaviour is inconsistant
since it's not the same with gedit, nautilus, gcalctool, ...
There's some other inconsistency under the main menu where totem is
merely called Movie Player where some other packages are called by
their real names. There's also another odd thing: there's an entry
stating 'SoundJuicer CD Extractor' but there's another stated simply
as 'xine'. This is under 'Sound & Video' under GNOME's main menu.


As far as Epiphany, I'm sure it's upstream (ie. the GNOME team) As the same "About" option's copyright statement says.

As far as the main menu: The yellow tooltip comments that come up are specified in the program's desktop file (*.desktop) that appears in /usr/share/applications. Whoever is responsible for providing these desktop files as part of the program determines who designed those comments to appear as they do.

BTW, the menus can be edited (on a per user basis) using the "Alacarte Menu Editor" under the Applications->Accessories menu. To change things globally, you'd have to manually edit the desktop files in /usr/share/applications. Cheers.

--
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque



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