Getting the original desktop file name from the software center

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2017-06-26 at 20:20 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> In gnome-software we want to get the reviews for the upstream
> application. A few common flatpak apps are renamed, e.g. from
> inkscape.desktop to org.inkscape.Inkscape.desktop -- is there any way
> to get the original application ID of the app for the purposes of
> getting the review? Ideally I could get this from the AppStream data,
> but I'm willing to get it from anywhere it's available. Ideas
> welcome!

This is not currently recorded in the results of the build. We would
have to add a field to the desktop file when we do the rename (say X-
original-name).