[Bug 1251635] Re: drop version numbers from users' .desktop file names
Jamie Strandboge
jamie at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 17 17:41:01 UTC 2014
I don't think I care one way or another on if the desktop file has the
version in the name (I'll let others comment). However, the APP_ID
should have the version in the name since APP_ID is used to to know
which apparmor profile to change_profile in to and the apparmor profile
is necessarily versioned because different versions of the app may have
different permissions, and multiple versions of the app may exist on a
multiuser system.
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Title:
drop version numbers from users' .desktop file names
Status in “click” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The version number in click .desktop file in users'
~/.local/share/applications cause issues on different levels for
apparently no advantage.
Every time you want to find a .desktop file for an app, you either
need to store the whole file name, with the version number (which
breaks on app upgrades, unless you react to it somehow), or find a
matching .desktop file based on the developer / app id and hookname
every time. App upgrades / removals are tricky unless we start
reacting to signals from the click system itself.
Since in users' realms there can only be one version of an app
installed at any given time, it feels like exposing this complication
there is unnecessary.
What do you think?
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