[SailfishDevel] applicationDisplayName and applicationName

[Matthias Fehring]

Hey Stefan,

this behaviour is correct.The entries in the desktop file are not connected to 
the properties of QGuiApplication and QCoreApplication.

QCoreApplication.applicationName is used to name configuration directories for 
QSettings. If it is not set, it takes the executable name (harbour-myapp). [0] 
You can use this name inside QML via Qt.application.name . [1]

QGuiApplication.applicationDisplayName is not used by SailfishOS/Silica. It 
would for example be used by windows managers to display the set name in the 
window top border. [2]

Best greetings
Buschmann

[0] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qcoreapplication.html#applicationName-prop
[1] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtqml-qt.html#application-prop
[2] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qguiapplication.html#applicationDisplayName-prop


Am Freitag, 20. März 2015, 12:49:44 schrieb stol at bredband.net:
> Hi
> 
> [...]
> 
> If my
> harbour-myapp.desktop file look like this
> 
> [Desktop
> Entry]
> Type=Application
> X-Nemo-Application-Type=silica-qt5
> Icon=harbour-myapp
> Exec=harbour-myapp
> Name=MyApp
> Name[de]=MyApp
> 
> 
> And I do
> 
>  QGuiApplication app(argc, argv);
>  appDispName =
> app.applicationDisplayName();
>  appName = app.applicationName();
> 
> I would
> expect that
> 
> appDispName="myApp"
> appName = harbour-myapp
> 
> but they
> don't, both are "harbour-myapp", is this correct ?
> (in the emulator i
> can see that the emulator is reading the application display name
> desktop file correctly
> because when i remove the application is says
> MyApp.
> 
> Or should i use other function calls to "read" the entries in
> the desktop file ?
> 
> /Stefan

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