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This pull request solves #113

The application plugin is now compliant with the Desktop Entry Specification:

Desktop File ID

Each desktop entry representing an application is identified by its desktop file ID, which is based on its filename.

To determine the ID of a desktop file, make its full path relative to the $XDG_DATA_DIRS component in which the desktop file is installed, remove the "applications/" prefix, and turn '/' into '-'.

For example /usr/share/applications/foo/bar.desktop has the desktop file ID foo-bar.desktop.

If multiple files have the same desktop file ID, the first one in the $XDG_DATA_DIRS precedence order is used.

Before, desktop entries (not files, but the entries within each file) would be overridden if they had matching Name and Icon fields, and $XDG_DATA_DIRS precedence was disregarded completely. This meant that overriding the Name or Icon fields would be impossible, because it would simply appear as a second entry (not overriding the original one).

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This PR has been created as well in anyrun-org/plugin-applications#2, closing this PR.

@peppidesu peppidesu closed this Jan 5, 2024
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