[dolphin] [Bug 463153] New: Discord identifies KDE Dolphin as Dolphin, the Wii/Gamecube emulator

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463153

            Bug ID: 463153
           Summary: Discord identifies KDE Dolphin as Dolphin, the
                    Wii/Gamecube emulator
    Classification: Applications
           Product: dolphin
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Microsoft Windows
                OS: Microsoft Windows
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: task
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: dolphin-bugs-null at kde.org
          Reporter: annoyingrain5 at gmail.com
                CC: kfm-devel at kde.org
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Have a windows computer prepared with both KDE dolphin and Discord installed
2. Configure discord to show your running games as your status, this may be set
by default.
3. Run KDE dolphin.
4. Observe in Discord, how your status is displayed as playing Dolphin, the
Wii/Gamecube emulator, known as dolphin-emu on linux.
Note that this will not appear in large servers with default settings in some
countries, so check it in a DM, or look for the streaming popup above your user
panel at the bottom of the channel list.

OBSERVED RESULT
Discord identifies the file browser as dolphin-emu, (only known as dolphin-emu
on linux, on windows it just goes by Dolphin) the Nintendo Wii/Gamecube
emulator. There is no way to tell Discord to ignore the application, or display
it as something else, as it is a "verified" application. Meaning there is no
way to remove the incorrect status for the end user but disable the
functionality entirely.

EXPECTED RESULT
Discord would have no reaction to the different application being opened, as it
is a file browser, not a game, and definitely not an emulator.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 11 21H2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.100.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7

PROPOSED SOLUTIONS:
1: Rename the distributed dolphin.exe to `KDE-dolphin.exe`, or similar. 

2: Contact discord to try to have the issue fixed on their end, as
`Dolphin.exe` refers to dolphin-emu, when `dolphin.exe` refers to the file
browser. Notice the capitalization difference. Discord's application
identification code could be changed to notice the capitalization difference
and ignore KDE dolphin. This would be the preferred solution as it follows the
KDE philosophy of a good solution always being better than a hacky one.

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