new .desktop file entry key

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:27:46 +0100 Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> babbled:

> On Saturday 13 of December 2008, andres wrote:
> > Hello,
> > The entry StartupWMClass is currently used to mach a given window by either
> > its ICCCM Window Class or Name properties.
> >
> > Creating a new .desktop entry StartupWMName used exclusively for Window
> > Name and limiting StartupWMClass to Window Class alone will makes this
> > matching more intuitive for developers and users editing the .desktop files
> > manually or via GUI.
> >
> > For example: wine sets the Window Class to "Wine" and the Window Name
> > to "BinaryFile.exe". In this case we have to set StartupWMClass
> > to "BinaryFIle.exe" instead of the current Window Class if we want to match
> > the window to the .desktop file.
> >
> > If we could create a .desktop file with:
> > StartupWMClass = "Wine"
> > StartupWMName = "BinaryFIle.exe"
> >
> > The window manager could do additional .desktop file grouping, matching and
> > manipulation by either value. Using a .desktop file manipulation library
> > 100% conforming to the standard like efreet. Instead of coding around the
> > limitation with an X-tension entry and custom non-standard functions for
> > .desktop file matching.
> >
> > I think this change is trivial enough for the improvement of intuitiveness
> > and flexibility it brings to the standard.
> 
>  The StartupWMClass is basically legacy support for applications which do not 
> have direct startup notification support. You can still easily match your 
> "BinaryFile.exe" example and applications which would have support for your 
> proposal should better simply have direct support, so I do not see the 
> usefulness of your proposal.

he wants to create .desktop files for apps so the icons are actually the icons
in the .desktop - and with wine, this requires you match BOTH name AND class
(as one is always 'wine', the other - the exe name). :)

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