Re: Application names in the (bottom) notification area.

["Christian Dysthe" <cdysthe gmail com>]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:00:46 -0500, Jasper St. Pierre
<jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Christian Dysthe <cdysthe gmail com>  
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a couple of application which stays in the (bottom) notification
> > area. In Gnome 2 they were named "Update Manager" and "HP Printer  
> > Manager",
> > but in Gnome Shell their names are "update.py" and "hp-toolbox". I think
> > that's their executable file names. Why aren't they named like they are  
> > in
> > Gnome 2 or all other DE's I've used (Cinnamon, Unity, KDE, LXDE and  
> > XFCE)?
>
> Cinnamon? Are you sure? If so, that's a pretty bad bug.

I checked Cinnamon again since I just updated it to v1.4 and it has been  
in heavy development lately. Now his particular program, which btw is  
Linux Mint's updater, doesn't a name associated with it in Cinnamon at  
all. It's just the icon. But in Gnome Shell it's still'update.py' when you  
hover over it. The other program is called 'HPLIP Status Service' in  
Cinnamon, but is 'HP-systray' in Gnome Shell. To me it seems like Gnome  
Shell uses WM class for naming, not the .desktop file. Could that be the  
case?
> > Is there a way I can get Gnome Shell to show their application name  
> > instead
> > of the executable file name?
>
> Are these system tray icons or libnotify notifications?

I'm not sure what they are. How could I find out?
> > I'm running Gnome 3.2 on Linux Mint Debian Edition UP4 x64.

--
//Christian

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