Comment # 23 on bug 1084864 from Kenneth Wimer

(In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #21)
> Maybe we should start with making better use of the fields that are already
> there in the .desktop files:
> 
>   Name=Google Chrome
>   GenericName=Web Browser
>   Comment=Access the Internet
> 
> (and translations for most of them)
> 
> Of course, that would require support for all (or at least more than one) of
> those fields in all relevant control centers or desktop environment menus;
> this might be the crucial problem.
> 
> Unfortunately, many desktop environments only bother with one of them;
> sometimes it's even the GenericName which IMHO is pretty useless; with the
> given example, you'll get "Web Browser" for each of Firefox, Chrome, Opera
> and whatever else you might have installed.
> 
> We can start to fix things on our local level, i.e. for YaST modules. But I
> am not so sure how much we can push for this for any of the desktop
> environments; they might have their own views what to display.

I agree completely.