[Fedora-packaging] fedora-foo.desktop vendor prefix breakage

[Michael Schwendt]

Hello everyone!

Here's real-world breakage due to the old vendor prefix in .desktop
file names.

  $ rpmls empathy|grep desktop$
  -rw-r--r--  /usr/share/applications/fedora-empathy.desktop

GNOME Shell wants "empathy.desktop" instead for its default Dash favourites:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=287759&goto=newpost

[...]

I've not opened a bugzilla report about this, because there are over 200
open tickets for empathy, and I can't tell whether the empathy packagers
would like the suggestion to rename the .desktop file instead of gnome-shell
having to be patched.

[...]

It's time to get rid of the old vendor prefix, even if that causes minor
breakage for app links on desktops.

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