Renaming appdata and desktop file for GCompris

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi Plasma team,

I'm a developer of GCompris and we recently had an issue with our
desktop file (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409996).
Luigi proposed to ask you to know if changing the name of it would be
an issue or have some unseen consequences for application managers?

I'm not subscribed to the list, please keep me in cc if you reply.

Johnny

---------- Forwarded message ---------
De : Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>
Date: dim. 28 juil. 2019 à 14:29
Subject: Re: Renaming appdata and desktop file
To: KDE i18n-doc <kde-i18n-doc at kde.org>, Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com>


Johnny Jazeix ha scritto:
> Hi,
> for GCompris we named the files org.kde.gcompris.appdata.xml and
> org.kde.gcompris.desktop.
> However, our binary file is gcompris-qt. According to
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=409996 (gcompris 0.96 has Wayland
> generic icon when you press alt+tab) and after some research
> (http://plfiorini.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-to-make-your-qt-application-icon.html),
> it seems we should rename our desktop file to
> org.kde.gcompris-qt.desktop
>
> Does changing the name is the good solution?

I don't really have an answer for this. I would suggest asking the Plasma team
for confirmation. They probably know also whether renaming has can make
application managers think that this is a new program.

> And if yes, do I just
> have to change the filenames (for both) and the translation can be
> automatically retrieved (or will I have to do some svn move)?

A manual rename would be needed for the templates and the files, but I can
help with that.

Ciao
--
Luigi