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

[elextr]

> @elextr this is orthogonal to the issue at hand, but:

But if we are stuffing about with the file it might have been an appropriate time to do it.

> 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);

Possibly its as simple as to avoid name clashes, but thats unlikely to be a problem for us.  Also the name [is used on DBUS](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.1.html#dbus) so it needs to be DBUS format.  Of course Geany doesn't use that, so it doesn't matter to us.

> I know downsides to changing a .desktop file name (dead links, duplicated entries if people copied over the file, and whatnot).

Well an install with a new filename could always remove any old `*geany.desktop` filenames, currently we claim the whole of that namespace so its _somebody else's problem_ if they invaded our namespace `</channelling G*>` :grin:.

> 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.

But but its _new_ and _techo_ ... oh ok fair enough :grin:.

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