Bug 10367

Summary:	French description text for thunderbird is too long
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Luis Menina <liberforce>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Florian Hubold <doktor5000>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Normal	CC:	andr999, doktor5000
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	Junior_job
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	thunderbird	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Luis Menina 2013-05-30 12:16:30 CEST

Description of problem:
This problem has existed for ages... You have an ultra-long description string in the .desktop file associated with Thunderbird, in French:
"Mozilla Thunderbird (courrier électronique)".

All other languages have a short string, just with the name of the program. Firefox has no such thing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
all

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Thunderbird in GNOME 3, in the french locale.
2. Look at the top bar: near the Thunderbird icon, the text is: "Mozilla Thunderbird (courrier électronique)", which is more than enough

Expected comportment:
The program name displayed near the Thunderbird icon should be "Mozlla Thunderbird", just like every other locale.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Luis Menina 2013-05-30 12:16:41 CEST

To fix this, this is just a matter of changing the /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop file. Replace the 
"Name[fr]=Mozilla Thunderbird (courrier électronique)" line by:
"Name[fr]=Mozilla Thunderbird"

Is the .desktop file handled by mageia or should I report this upstream?

Comment 2 Luis Menina 2013-05-30 12:19:59 CEST

Also, the package name is just "thunderbird", and Firefox displays "Firefox", not "Mozilla Firefox", so should the "Mozilla" prefix be dropped alltogether for all locales?

Comment 3 Luis Menina 2013-09-26 18:24:29 CEST

I'm pretty sure this is still valid in cauldron. Would be nice to fix.

Version: 3 => Cauldron

Comment 4 andré blais 2014-01-02 12:51:10 CET

Or it could be :
"Name[fr]=Mozilla Thunderbird (courriel)"
according to the accepted term by l'Academie FranÃ§aise, if that isn't too long.

In any case, the suggested workaround will work, editing the file :
 /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop

CC: (none) => andre999mga

Comment 5 Luis Menina 2014-01-04 00:59:28 CET

"Mozilla Thunderbird (courriel)" is still too long... Every other language just has "Mozilla Thunderbird", as I said in the bug description. The shorter, the better.

Comment 6 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-10 16:40:25 CEST

Assigning to maintainer.

Keywords: (none) => Junior_job
Assignee: bugsquad => doktor5000

Comment 7 Florian Hubold 2015-09-11 20:33:42 CEST

(In reply to Luis Menina from comment #1)
> Replace the 
> "Name[fr]=Mozilla Thunderbird (courrier électronique)" line by:
> "Name[fr]=Mozilla Thunderbird"
> 
> Is the .desktop file handled by mageia or should I report this upstream?

That is handled by Mageia, see http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/thunderbird/current/SOURCES/thunderbird.desktop?view=markup

As currently nearly all the Name[xx] values except the french one values "Mozilla Thunderbird" I'd propose to change it for all of them to just "Thunderbird".

Although I'm not sure about the translated values for Name[xx] ... does it make sense to translate a proper name at all? IMHO it should be sufficient if we keep the translated GenericName and Comment values, no?

CC: (none) => doktor5000
Hardware: i586 => All

Florian Hubold 2015-09-11 20:33:49 CEST

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED

Comment 8 Rémi Verschelde 2015-09-12 00:36:35 CEST

Yes I think you can drop all Name[xx], it's indeed rare that software names need to be translated. I'm not sure users would understand what Oiseau de tonnerre or Donnervogel would be :p

Dropping the "Mozilla" part seems ok to me, Firefox only has "Firefox" and not "Mozilla Firefox" in its desktop file.

Comment 9 Florian Hubold 2015-11-30 17:29:37 CET

Sorry forgot about this. Changed in cauldron as agreed:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages?view=revision&revision=907362

For the change Mozilla Thunderbird => Thunderbird seems there are some more changes involved, have to check about that.

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED