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chinnybob

2012 年 12 月 15 日上午 8:19

Recommendation: Don't use GenericName field in .desktop

Steam creates .desktop files for each game you installed, but it always sets the GenericName entry to "Steam Game". This makes no sense. The purpose of this field is to allow programs with silly names eg "GIMP" to show up in menus as "Image Editor". This makes sense for image editors and web browsers where they are all largely interchangable and most people will only have one installed, and won't care which one it actually is.

It doesn't make sense for Steam to do what it does because most people will have multiple games installed and showing a menu that has 5 entries that all say "Steam Game" is not useful or helpful.

So I recommend that Steam leaves the GenericName field blank, so that the Name field (which is the full name of the game) is used instead.

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ThOR27

2012 年 12 月 15 日上午 9:36

Thaodan

2012 年 12 月 15 日下午 1:26

Or better store the description of the game in 'GenericName'

johndrinkwater

2012 年 12 月 15 日下午 2:25

Isn’t this more of a bug than a feature request if its displaying the wrong name for games in the launcher/menu?

chinnybob

2012 年 12 月 15 日下午 3:43

引用自 Thaodan：
Or better store the description of the game in 'GenericName'

The Comment field would be better suited to this. (Currently set to "Play this game" for all games.)

elgregor

2012 年 12 月 18 日下午 1:17

Paul N. Maxwell 擁有 Steam for Linux

2012 年 12 月 19 日下午 1:02

johndrinkwater

2013 年 1 月 18 日上午 6:30

chinnybob, does GenericName show in any specific launchers? Could you provide screenshots at all? I’m just going through looking for issues to bump onto github.

chinnybob

2013 年 2 月 15 日下午 12:20

Generic name shows in XFCE if you have the appropriate option set. I'm pretty sure gnome panel has this option too. I can provide screenshots but I have no idea at all how to post them on this (I can post them to github easily though.)

johndrinkwater

2013 年 2 月 15 日下午 3:07

On github would be great :)

chinnybob

2013 年 2 月 15 日下午 3:46

Done.

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Linneris

2013 年 2 月 15 日下午 11:24

I think GenericName should remain empty for Steam games, and Comment, indeed, should be set to the game description.

KDE also has this problem. It displays GenericName first, prominently, and the application name second, greyed out, e.g.

Document Viewer
Okular

For Steam games, it would thus display as:

Steam Game
Team Fortress 2

Not very intuitive when quickly scanning the list of a dozen or two applications in the menu.

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