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 <sit...@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 <jaz...@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.tosc...@tiscali.it> > > Date: dim. 28 juil. 2019 à 14:29 > > Subject: Re: Renaming appdata and desktop file > > To: KDE i18n-doc <kde-i18n-...@kde.org>, Johnny Jazeix <jaz...@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
