right description list LaTeX beamer

Question

How to do right align a description list using beamer?

      Name | Joel Spolsky
   Address | Some address    

Using the enumitem package as suggested in Description list with right alignment of labels does not seem to work with the beamer package

Answer 1

With beamer package, the description environment can use an optional argument: a text to fix the maximum width of terms (cf. p. 113 of beamer guide v3.26).

Example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\setbeamercolor{normal text}{bg=cyan!10}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
  \begin{description}[Other description]
  \item[Name] Joel Spolsky
  \item[Address] Some address  
  \item[Other description] Some description
  \end{description}
\end{frame}
\end{document}