Connect the dots -- trying to understand Hardinfo, System Profiler & Benchmark

kovacslt · 20 December 2024 07:11

Is Schrödinger’s cat alive? Let’s check it!

I’m just having my morning coffee and I’m thinking, what tricks you is the behaviour of Nemo.
It shows the .desktop file by reading the Name= property in it, and displays the file using that name, and shows the icon specified in the icon= property.
If the system is non-english, the displayed name is also localized using the name[local]= property. So a german Nemo would display the name[ge]= property for the very same .desktop file.
This is how Nemo does this, this is specific to Nemo, not Linux in general.
(Nautilus in Gnome doesn’t do this behavior - it has other drawbacks ).
You can list the .desktop files more directly (looking at lower level) using cli commands, or a file manager in terminal, like Midnight Commander, or using a different GUI file manager, like Double Commander or Krusader.

Edit:
@easyt50 , you are not alone:

github.com/linuxmint/nemo

Nemo option to show REAL filename for .desktop files

opened 10:05AM - 23 Jul 20 UTC

lucypol

FEATURE REQUEST

``` * Nemo version (nemo --version) Nemo 4.6.4 * Is issue with desktop or… windowed nemo? Windowed * Distribution - (Mint 17.2, Arch, Fedora 25, etc...) Mint 20 * 32 or 64 bit 64-bit ``` **Issue** Not showing the real filename for .desktop files **Steps to reproduce** list files in /usr/share/applications/ **Expected behaviour** Showing real filename **Other information** I would like an option to show the real filename and not this hide the real name like Windows This is partly why we left Windows, so we can see the real information, not what is spoon fed to us by deception Having this hidden results in errors, I nearly deleted what I thought was duplicate entries for applications when they were different files but the display showed them as duplicate files At the very least give me an option to display the REAL FILENAME With the real filename hidden you're causing PROBLEMS, especially for new users who are likely to delete what they see as duplicate files For example, "Update manager" shows two duplicate .desktop files in Nemo, but when you go to the command line, they are in fact different filenames. Krita application, shows a dozen of different .desktop files and Nemo shows them as duplicates This is Linux, NOT WINDOWS. Regardless of what the Freedesktop spec says, I want an option to OVERRIDE it so I see the real filenames.