[Github-comments] [geany/geany] write absolute path to geany bin in desktop file (#2728)

Colomban Wendling notifications at xxxxx
Mon Jan 18 13:06:24 UTC 2021


> Sorry should have put the reference, the [desktop file spec](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.1.html) says "For applications, the part of the name of the desktop file (before the .desktop) should follow the "reverse DNS" convention, e.g. org.example.FooViewer.desktop."

@elextr this is orthogonal to the issue at hand, but:
* Yes, I think it's now the preferred naming scheme;
* However, I don't know if it actually has any advantage (I though at a time it helped with startup notification, but tests I made a while back suggests it does not);
* I know downsides to changing a .desktop file name (dead links, duplicated entries if people copied over the file, and whatnot).

So… yeah if we'd start over, I'd use the reverse-DNS scheme, but I don't think we should change the name we use unless we really know *why*.

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