[Kde-games-devel] generic names in .desktop files
Albert Astals Cid
aacid at kde.org
Tue Apr 15 20:14:52 CEST 2008
A Dimarts 15 Abril 2008, Aaron J. Seigo va escriure:
> hi games people!
>
> the topic of app menus came up at one point at Tokamak (surprise!) and one
> of the identified pain points was the games menu. [ade] has also blogged
> about this issue recently.
>
> what it comes down to, essentially, is that the generic names for many of
> our games are rather unhelpful to the user. having N "Boardgame" entries
> show up isn't overly great.
Well, it depends what you use generic names for. In my opinion "Board game" is
an Ok generic name. Then if you use that for the menu, it seems wrong, but
maybe you should not using generic names in menus instead of "degenerizing"
generic names.
Albert
>
> a suggestion that came up was that many games simply don't *have* generic
> names: killbots is .. well .. killbots. and that's that.
>
> some do, however: kpat is a Sollitaire Card Game.
>
> what do you folks think?
>
> i'd love to get this cleaned up for 4.1 a bit if we can.
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