Imperfect text information in .desktop file
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dosbox (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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dosbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: dosbox
I want to make two suggestions about .desktop file of this package:
1) Name section of .desktop file sounds for now as "Dosbox Emulator". I think it is quite reasonable to rename this section to "DOSBox". The official way of writing is "DOSBox", not "Dosbox", and I think there isn't any reason to use word "Emulator" additionally, because this word appeared in comment section.
2) Comment section of .desktop file sounds for now as "An emulator to run old DOS games". It's fine, but we can use DOSBox not only for games, but for any other DOS applications. Maybe it's better to correct this comment to something like "A DOS emulator" or "An emulator to run old DOS applications"?
What do you think about my suggestions? It's important for me.
Related branches
Changed in dosbox: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Changed in dosbox: | |
assignee: | nobody → rainct |
Changed in dosbox: | |
assignee: | rainct → nobody |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in dosbox: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in dosbox: | |
assignee: | nobody → persia |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
Changed in dosbox: | |
assignee: | persia → nobody |
Changed in dosbox: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Thanks for taking the time to report this and helping make Ubuntu better. I'll have look at this soon.
Notes:
1) The word "Emulator" should be conserved in the name according to the latest FreeDesktop.org specs (menu entries should be descriptives by themselves, without the need to look at the comment; look at other entries and you'll see that most of them -except the games- follow this).
2) Also because of the latests specifications, comments should start with a verb. So an appropriate description, considering your comments, would be something like: «Run old DOS applications».