• mnmalst@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for the reply. Forgetting the name of the application you installed 10 seconds ago was not something I had considered. I wonder if this a common occurrence since this literally never happened to me before.

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      3 months ago

      I dunno man.

      It’s not like linux applications ever have different app-names in the menu, when compared to the package name you just saw when installing it.

      That has never tripped me up. No. Never.

      /S

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        3 months ago

        What’s the problem here? I said I had never had that problem before and therefor was wondering if that’s a common problem users might have. So that would make the feature indeed not as useless as I thought.

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      3 months ago

      You can set most KDE menus to show the “Comment” key of the .desktop files instead of the “Name” key. So “KDE Advanced Text Editor” instead of “Kate”.

      Packages can come with several “programs” that aren’t necessarily named the same as the package. Example: Calibre installs menu items for “Calibre”, “EBookViewer” and “EBookEditor” on my distro.

      It’s not about forgetting…it’ about helping to quickly find what you just installed and what is all included.