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Thunar does not show _actual_ desktop filenames.
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RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Nate Lee 2008-01-02 03:14:16 CET
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When viewing the <n>.desktop files in /usr/share/applications (or elsewhere, for that matter, none of the view options displays the _actual_ filename, rather it displays the ¨Name=¨ value from within the file. I suppose this is alright for an icon display, but at least for detailed list view, I feel that all of the file parameters displayed should match what is returned from normal CLI commands (i.e. the filename should show as what would come back from an ls command). For menus and desktop icons, showing the ¨Name=¨ parm and the icon as default is both preferred and acceptable, but within the file manager, the actual state of the filesystem should be accurately represented, if not as default, certainly as a choice. Thanks for your attention.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open thunar
2.go to /usr/share/applications
3.choose ¨detailed list"as view option.
4.compare list with ¨ls -al /usr/share/applications¨
Comment 1 Heiko Baums 2010-03-11 14:45:02 CET
It would be nice, if this could be fixed soon, because this behaviour is pretty annoying. Thunar is a file manager and I need the filenames and not the file contents listed in a file manager.
Comment 2 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2010-03-11 18:53:11 CET
This is fixed in Thunar >= 1.1.0 via GIO. GIO returns "foo.desktop" as the display name instead of "foo" for all desktop files.

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to maintain two branches, so stable Thunar <= 1.0.x won't get the fix.

Bug #3774

Reported by:
Nate Lee
Reported on: 2008-01-02
Last modified on: 2010-03-11

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Jannis Pohlmann
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