[mpris] DesktopEntry shortcomings

[mirsal at mirsal.fr]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Alex Merry <kde at randomguy3.me.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 23 December 2010 15:48:20 mirsal at mirsal.fr wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Alex Merry <kde at randomguy3.me.uk> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:29:32 Conor Curran wrote:
>> >> Why shouldn't it be the full path to the desktop file including the
>> >> extension ?
>> >
>> > For backwards compatibility purposes, I'd rather add a DesktopFilePath
>> > property that operates as Conor suggests, and deprecate DesktopEntry.
>> >
>> > Would anyone object to me including this in 2.1?
>>
>> I'd rather go for DesktopFileName, and use a basename (with the
>> extension) instead of a full path.
>> (Otherwise, it moots the point of the directory cascade)
>
> But what's the point in this, then?  Rather than muddying the waters with two
> properties that give essentially the same information (as in, you can get the
> value of one by adding ".desktop" to the value of the other), why not leave it
> as it is?

AFAIC, it is fine as it is.
having the extension in it would have been better for the sake of correctness.

Let me rephrase: If we are to change this, let's keep it a base name,
I think a full path would be a mistake

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Mirsal
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