On 01/20/2013 06:54 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
Hello everyone!
Here's real-world breakage due to the old vendor prefix in .desktop
file names.
$ rpmls empathy|grep desktop$
-rw-r--r-- /usr/share/applications/fedora-empathy.desktop
GNOME Shell wants "empathy.desktop" instead for its default Dash favourites:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=287759&goto=newpost
[...]
I've not opened a bugzilla report about this, because there are over 200
open tickets for empathy, and I can't tell whether the empathy packagers
would like the suggestion to rename the .desktop file instead of gnome-shell
having to be patched.
[...]
It's time to get rid of the old vendor prefix, even if that causes minor
breakage for app links on desktops.
I would tend to agree. The existing guidelines already strongly
discourage their use, except in the case of a prefix already existing in
a release.
These legacy packages and packagers may well be unaware of the issue.
In this particular case, imo, gnome-shell probably ought to be patched
in f18, but for f19+, empathy's prefix certainly should be dropped.
-- rex
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