[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51878] Windows installer: Include version in links in start menu

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #51878 (project octave):

I'm not a Windows user and I have little experience with what current Windows
users expect, I don't know what is typical with other Windows programs.

But IMHO, in any operating system environment, you want the user to just see
"Octave" or "GNU Octave" as the name of the program, without any version or
"GUI" appended to it. For consistency I would think we want the launcher to be
the same.

Does Firefox install a launcher calling itself "Firefox 55.0"?

Our standard launcher for GNU/Linux desktop environments has the label "GNU
Octave".

Adding the version is mainly useful to developers, people who want to install
and test multiple versions of Octave at once. Are these users not technically
proficient enough to rename the launcher if they want to be able to
differentiate multiple versions?

All normal users just want to run "GNU Octave" and the launcher should say
just that.

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