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#458 Thunderbird's desktop file name and app ID don't match, causing the wrong icon to be shown in various places
Opened by ngraham. Modified

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See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455421 and https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gedit/-/issues/486.

TL;DR version:

Because Thunderbird lacks a desktop file upstream, Fedora patches it in, named mozilla-thunderbird.desktop. However Thunderbird reports its app id as "thunderbird", and this is not changed via another patch to "mozilla-thunderbird", which would match the desktop file. As a result they don't match and the app icon isn't shown in various places in the shell, such as the Alt-Tab switcher and window titlebar icon.

See https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/firefox/c/2eaa0458a5e2aa1fc6dcf97b1e42ac74569495d2?branch=rawhide for the firefox equivalent

Indeed, Firefox doesn't suffer from this issue. I guess that's why!

@erack, could you please take a look at this?

Metadata Update from @ngompa:
- Issue tagged with: experience, need-work

Metadata Update from @ngompa:
- Issue assigned to erack
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