From kde-core-devel  Mon Jul 26 14:07:30 1999
From: Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 14:07:30 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: RFC: new "Label" keyword for desktop files...
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93299810110451

On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Pietro Iglio wrote:
> Sounds like a hack. The AppId is critical, it should be there when the
> app is installed, never changed, and removed only when the app is
> uninstalled. 

That's why the file name as id is the way to go. All other
solutions (Label and AppId in the .desktop file) are incompatible
with existing .desktop files.

Note: As long as these files had a suffix .kdelnk there was
some freedom to change semantics. Now the decision to rename
them to .desktop has been made, and people are expecting them
to behave like .desktop files. 

Bernd.