You may have noticed from my signature line that I'm running KDE in my Linux Mint 18 (which uses the repos for Ubuntu 16.04). So why would I want to know how to change the names of applications in Nautilus' right-click-to-drop-down menu at selection "Open with?"

Among other customisations, I have:

• Added GNOME Viewer, GNOME Editor, and GNOME Terminal from the repos;
• Added XViewer and Eye Of Mate (for their old-school EOM features);
• Tried Nautilus, but with one thing and another could never get it menu bar to show up (even after using GNOME Tweak Tool), so I switched to Nemo and made it my "primary" file navigator (more on that soonest);
• Also with one thing and another, with four almost-identical image viewers, Nemo, IMO brilliantly geared though it is towards lower memory usage, gives all four the same name.

That's the bit I want to change. It's been a few years since I've used ordinary Ubuntu (back when 12.04 was the latest), so I've forgotten which tool, if there is one, to make this change. I suspect it's the GNOME counterpart to KDE Menu Editor (kmenuedit). If so, please instruct me how to get it from the repos or, failing that, an appropriate source for a DEB package?

Carver

The name displayed is determined by the .desktop file - which would normally be found in /usr/share/applications/
For instance, if I wanted to change the name of my XViewer, I would open that file in my text editor (as root).
The Name= line is what I would change:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Image Viewer
Comment=Browse and rotate images
TryExec=xviewer
Exec=xviewer %U

Some .desktop files include Name= lines for a large number of different languages, so you would change the line for the language you are using.

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