Renaming appdata and desktop file for GCompris

[Johnny Jazeix]

Hi,

thanks for the explanation. We'll go with the
QGuiApplication::setDesktopFileName solution as we don't use KF5 and
it seems the easiest way to do it.

Johnny

Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 08:03, Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Do note that the appstream file name  and the desktop file name do not
> need to be the same. An appstream file tags a specific desktop file as
> <provides> [1]. So technically you do not need to rename it, you only
> need to change the desktop file and the provides entry. If you want to
> rename it do note that the <provides> tag may contain an <id> tag,
> that's where you specify your old name and the appstream tooling will
> know that your component has two names.
>
> Lastly, I *think* you do not technically need to rename anything. If
> you want you should also be able to use KAboutData::setDesktopFileName
> [2] respectively QGuiApplication::setDesktopFileName [3] to help the
> task manager resolve the desktop file from your process without having
> to rename anything.
>
> [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/chap-Metadata.html#sect-Metadata-GenericComponent
> [2] https://api.kde.org/frameworks/kcoreaddons/html/classKAboutData.html#a112d2fc20c31e7847995930e030cc67b
> [3] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html#desktopFileName-prop
>
> HS
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:02 AM Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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