The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar’s Toy Story franchise. Debian’s unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.
The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar’s Toy Story franchise. Debian’s unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.
Your Mint/Xed example doesn’t show what you think it does. Mint doesn’t just ship with
.desktopentries for a bunch of applications, they are still managed by the respective developers and part of the packages themselves. Mint is also the developer of Xed, so the repository is in their organization, but the.desktopfile is still part of the package. If you install Xed on any other distribution, you’ll still get the same.desktopentry, because it’s part of the package.That is all I’ve been talking about. I’m not sure how your reply relates to that, but it would help me if you tell me what you’re arguing against.
Mostly that we do this at all in the first place.
Forget the technical details for a minute. removed how .desktop files work. The program’s binary is named “xed.” If you want to install it, you have to type “sudo apt install xed” or “sudo dnf install xed” or whatever because that’s the package’s name. But in the user-facing parts of the GUI like the App menu or in the window’s title bar, it calls itself “Text Editor.”
Let’s pretend you’re a new user to Linux, you use Linux Mint Cinnamon for a little while, you like the text editor that comes with it, you decide to switch to Fedora KDE, you try it out but you find you don’t like KATE as much. You want to install the one from Linux Mint. How do you find out what to type into dnf to get it to do that? You haven’t been taught that the program’s name is Xed, everything you saw as a Mint user called it “Text Editor.” Why did they do that to you?
Okay, but why do you tell me that I’m wrong and keep going on about unrelated points? I don’t care if the user-facing name is different from the binary name. I have no position on the topic.
I corrected a wrong statement (who is responsible for the
.desktopfile of an application). You tried to counter-correct me, but did so on an unrelated point (who displays the application name? I’m still not sure). Positions on whether.desktopfiles defining separate names is good aren’t relevant.you win forget I said anything Im blocking you please block me.