[Bug 157117] Show the menu items in Name (Description) format

[Sebastian Sauer]

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------- Additional Comments From mail dipe org  2008-02-02 12:30 -------
Bug #155362 is btw the related report that tries to deal with that issue for the traditional menu. There the issue was imho a bit easier since at the KMenu we only have one place for a text what means it was needed to decide either the one or the other (per default).

Here is what Aaron wrote (and it's related to kickoff and not the traditional menu what makes it fit quit well into this report) and some remarks I just added;

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a) disambiguating between programs with the same generic name. i wonder how difficult (and efficient) it would be to compare if the next or previous item has the same generic name and if so to always paint the subtext in that case. 
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imho that would be the worst solution since then on Computer A it's named "Web Browser" while on Computer B it's "Konqueror" and that only cause one of them has e.g. Firefox installed and the other hasn't.
 
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 b) allowing different styles for the main text. really, the only options we need here is to turn off the details-on-mouse-hover (so that they are always painted) and define what is in the header text (generic name or specific name). with those two options one can emulate all the behaviours in kde3, no? 
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This sounds logical through I guess I didn't understand how the "details-on-mouse-hover" option is related to it.
So, a "Display Applicationname as caption" checkbox in the options?