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<p><a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/elextr/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/elextr">@elextr</a> this is orthogonal to the issue at hand, but:</p>
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<p>But if we are stuffing about with the file it might have been an appropriate time to do it.</p>
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<p>Yes, I think it's now the preferred naming scheme;<br>
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);</p>
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<p>Possibly its as simple as to avoid name clashes, but thats unlikely to be a problem for us.  Also the name <a href="https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.1.html#dbus" rel="nofollow">is used on DBUS</a> so it needs to be DBUS format.  Of course Geany doesn't use that, so it doesn't matter to us.</p>
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<p>I know downsides to changing a .desktop file name (dead links, duplicated entries if people copied over the file, and whatnot).</p>
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<p>Well an install with a new filename could always remove any old <code>*geany.desktop</code> filenames, currently we claim the whole of that namespace so its <em>somebody else's problem</em> if they invaded our namespace <code></channelling G*></code> <g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="grin" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f601.png">😁</g-emoji>.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>But but its <em>new</em> and <em>techo</em> ... oh ok fair enough <g-emoji class="g-emoji" alias="grin" fallback-src="https://github.githubassets.com/images/icons/emoji/unicode/1f601.png">😁</g-emoji>.</p>

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