[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 746435] wayland: Use g_get_prgname as the xdg surface application id

[gtk+ (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746435

--- Comment #13 from Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> ---
> mutter calls meta_window_set_wm_class with the app_id as both the name and
> instance. gnome-shell then tries to use these to find the appliation, either by
> its the StartupWMClass or the .desktop basename.

ah, so this goes into the whole application matching mess, where we try to
guess which window relates to which application.

> If there is any API in GTK application to get the basename of the .desktop
> application, it'd probably be best to try that first and then fallback to 
> g_get_prgname. I don't think we should keep using the GDK program class, as
> it'll never be correct.

Sadly, there is no such api, so what you have is probably the best we can do.

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