Review Request 127308: Fix name of desktop file to have icon working on Wayland

[Matthias Klumpp]

> On März 8, 2016, 5:20 nachm., Hrvoje Senjan wrote:
> > Do we want a kconf_update script with that for all hte people that have systemsettings.desktop as favourite in launchers?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     I don't think it's needed. The important part is that there is a desktop file which is reverse domain name dot binaryname. How the desktop file which launched the application is called, doesn't really matter.
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> Hrvoje Senjan wrote:
>     A misunderstanding ;-)
>     I'm merely talking about people losing their favourite after upgrading to 5.6.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     Sorry I don't get that. Why should renaming result in losing the favorite?
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> Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>     The favourite apps settings is a list with .desktop filenames which are shown in the launcher. If you now change the .desktop filename, the launcher entry will become invalid or vanish, although the actual application is still there, leading to confused users.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     and where is that stored?
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     btw. that's a pretty big problem. We have thousands of incorrectly named desktop files. I don't want to write a kconf update script for each of them. I don't mind spending the time to fix the desktop files, but also adding a kconf update script is quite some work.

Yeah, it's a massive pain. Ubuntu is duplicating .desktop files for that reason and hiding the new name (so the app doesn't show up twice), so user's favourites don't break in Unity - which has a whole lot of problems.
GNOME had a .desktop file name mapping once (I think meanwhile they've just given up completely), but only cared for GNOME apps in there.

So yes, much pain, hard to solve, really annoying :(


- Matthias


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On März 8, 2016, 3:18 nachm., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated März 8, 2016, 3:18 nachm.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: systemsettings
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> Description
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> The desktop file name should include the reverse domain name and must
> much the binary.
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> Diffs
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>   app/CMakeLists.txt 3fa8dbb52b4cd8fd553c67a768fcd68c51cb83e4 
>   app/systemsettings.desktop  
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127308/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Martin Gräßlin
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