[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#740425: Bug#740425: libexo-helpers: Please rename epiphany.desktop to epiphany-browser.desktop

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le Sat, 1 Mar 2014 16:24:03 +0100,
Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> a écrit :

> On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 02:13:27PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > Package: libexo-helpers
> > Version: 0.10.2-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In debian, the .desktop file for epiphany (the web browser) has been
> > renamed to epiphany-browser.desktop due to a clash with the name of
> > an other package.
> > 
> > Shouldn't this also be reflected in libexo-helpers?
> 
> Why, does it conflicts against anything? Does it prevent it to work?

There are some other programs (I have geoclue-2.0 in mind) that use the
the desktop-id (the name of the desktop file without the .desktop part)
to identify the running programs. So if this desktop file is use to
start epiphany, the desktop-id might be wrong.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville