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Hide emblem names in properties dialog
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RESOLVED: FIXED
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enhancement

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Description Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2012-11-26 15:28:37 CET
I've seen that Nautilus uses .icon files to provide name and translations for every emblem, so a few icon themes seem to provide those .icon files.

In my humble opinion, this is utterly useless.
1) Why should emblems have names?
2) Why should icon-themes carry text-files with translations?

ad 1)
If an emblem isn't verbose enough in what it looks like, it's a failure. If attached to a file or folder, you won't see its (file)name anyway. The only point I see in seeing the name is to bugtrack missing emblems when switching to a different icon-theme (as emblems are pretty non-standard and individual).

ad 2)
This point brings icon-theme providers into a weird spot, because those translations are hard to maintain and crude text-files are not exactly fun for doing so (although agreeably for some widespread emblems, translations could be borrowed from gnome's icon-theme).

Therefore I propose to hide the emblem-names in Thunar's properties-dialog (as the title says).
Comment 1 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-11-26 16:20:58 CET
I can set the original name as a tooltip, so even incomplete translations are not directly visible.
Comment 2 Simon Steinbeiss editbugs 2012-11-26 16:25:51 CET
Sounds good to me!
Comment 3 Nick Schermer editbugs 2012-11-26 19:56:03 CET
Fixed in 4e853a9.

Bug #9548

Reported by:
Simon Steinbeiss
Reported on: 2012-11-26
Last modified on: 2012-11-26

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Jannis Pohlmann
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