Comment 26 for bug 105685

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote : Re: [Bug 105685] Re: Totem's menu entry should read "Totem Movie Player"

Upstream has /absolutely/ no intention of doing this. Their interpretation
of the Desktop Entry Spec is basically along the lines of "how we want the
menu to look", which is the reason we have applications named such delights
as "Take Screenshot".

The only way this is ever gonna be fixed is if Ubuntu decides to enforce an
actual, coherent application naming policy. People including myself have
been wanting this for years but it is clear our translation framework is not
as efficient as, say, Facebook's (they have a full translation into Pirate,
for god's sake!), so we're just admitting defeat and saying "it's too much
translation work".

Frankly, it's a minor annoyance at best and while little warts of ugly like
this do threaten the overall polished feel of our OS, we do indeed have
bigger fish to fry and arguing with the gods that be about this is just a
waste of breath.