On Thu, 2015-05-28 at 12:43 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
Is changing the app-id right? To me, app IDs correspond to application identity. If a user has a Fedora version of GEdit installed, and then installs a newer version of GEdit from upstream, I would expect:
- Only one GEdit icon appears in the list of applications
- If the user marked GEdit as a favorite, the favorite icon retargets to the newer installed version
By using the name GEdit and the GEdit icon, Fedora has already made the claim *to the user* that what it packaged is GEdit - having a different application ID under the hood can only lead to confusion.
Yeah, i agree, its not like having the fedora version and the upstream version installed in parallel would work well anyway (which is which in the shell?). I think we need to handle this in the same way that we handle two different versions of an upstream gedit installed in parallel (which currently has only one at a time being exported to the system). We probably need to mark somehow that this is a fedora built version though. Maybe we could add a packager field to the metadata.