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

[Marcelo Sales]

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------- Additional Comments From mmtsales gmail com  2008-06-30 03:55 -------
Maybe for a novice Linux user, who doesn't yet know the names of the applications that can be used for a given task, it's useful to emphasize the description. However, for the veteran/experienced user, this is too bad! Even to the novice user it's bad, once he/she learns the applications names, for the following reasons:
First, one never know what description the software author or packager thinks it's nice for the software, so one doesn't know what to look for. 
Second, the description may change from distribution to distribution and even from version to version of the package. The applications' names do not change.
Third, even if now the applications names are shown if descriptions are identical (which is not happening here using KDE 4.0.83), some applications have different but equivalent descriptions. For example, here in Fedora 9 I have DVD Authoring (KMediaFactory) and DVD Video Creator (DeVeDe). 
This is too much confusing! I know what application I want, but even then it's difficult to locate it on the menu because I don't know what description the author/packager happened to choose for it.
An option for the user to choose what should be emphasized, name or description, is needed. If such an option does not exist, it's so much better to use the application name...