BeartoothHOS wrote:
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:37:02 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> BeartoothHOS wrote:
>
>
>> But for as long as I can remember, there have been two kinds of entries
>> in the Main menu: ones that will tell you what they are or do if you
>> hover the cursor over them -- and ones that belong to KDE.
>>
>> Why the lacuna? Do KDE developers, like Apple developers, presume that
>> *everyone* already knows?
>
> You *ass*ume much here, pointing fingers and blame.
Puns are pointless here -- especially old cold dried-up ones.
You are reading an interpretation into my words which had not
occurred to me, and which I disavow.
"Do KDE developers, like Apple developers, presume
that everyone already knows? "
Sounds like a blanket statement about intentions to me. Stick to facts
then, please, if you don't want a reaction.
*Why* do I get so much more info about Gnome apps than KDE ones,
*who* could change that, and *where* can I make the request and expect it
to be on topic?
OK, simply put: on gnome you get more info about gnome apps. On kde, you
get more info about kde apps.
> It goes both ways. For example, Gnome doesn't support the
GenericName
> part of the desktop-spec, whereas KDE in general doesn't offer Comment
> keys.
I have no idea what that jargon refers to. Why are you throwing
it at me? What does it have to do with the issue?
Gnome shows Comment= keys on hover, KDE shows GenericName entries in the
menus. Gnome ignores and doesn't use GenericName anywhere. KDE doesn't use
Commment= keys (for the most part).
Does that help?
Now, imo, KDE at least embraces the desktop-spec here, and I'll take any
bugs wrt missing Comment= keys in .desktop files, and help fix it. I've
been virtually begging fedora/gnome developers to do the same for supporting
GenericName= keys for quite awhile, with little success to date.
-- Rex