Created attachment 3197 wrong icon names When opening ~/Desktop with Thunar, it displays the files in it, obviously. Though, I think it should display .desktop files there differently than normal files. It should use the Name key from the .desktop files itself for display. More important, on the desktop itself, the Name really should be used and not the real filename. See screenshot (I'm not sure whether this is a separate bug in xfdesktop or whether it is also Thnar). This happens on GIT master from Monday, November 15 2010.
commit dc4dc713ed71b8efa22e6b69fccc17eaf56336b1 Author: Jannis Pohlmann <jannis@xfce.org> Date: Sun Nov 21 13:05:50 2010 +0100 Use Name field as display name of desktop entries (bug #6860).
Please add a configure option to simply display all filenames without any fancy substitutions. Now the "Rename..." in the context menu actually edits the .desktop file, which I find counter-intuitive. I then tried to edit the filename within the file "Properties". But the full filename was not displayed there either. Is Thunar not supposed to be able to rename a .desktop filename to whatever the user wants?
Hm, no, I disagree. Desktop entries are launchers, they are special. They are (sometimes) executable, and the contain meta information that users are supposed to see instead of the real thing (in a file manager as well, at least in my opinion). You are free to disagree but there will be no configure option for this. A hidden option maybe but it's not on my list, sorry.