Launchpad Integration with the deskop: thoughts?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Matt Zimmerman">

> > >  Does this sound sane?
> > 
> > Yes, this is what we agreed on at Mataró. ;-)
> 
> The problem is that we need a way to look up the launchpad name for the
> application.  This is not the same as the package name, nor the name
> passed to gnome_about_new (which is localized anyway).
> 
> I don't see an obvious way to do this without changing the library API
> incompatibly (to add a parameter to the function), which seems like a very
> bad idea.
> 
> Any better ideas?

Add the Launchpad to the application metadata file (ie. the .desktop file).

- Jeff

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