New package name for Spotify on Linux

ZVTNexus — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:05:19 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

United States

Operating System

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

My Question or Issue

Would it be possible to have the app renamed to "com.spotify.music", similar to Android? So instead of:

/usr/bin/spotify (with app_id & wmclass being spotify)

/usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/spotify.png

You would have:

/usr/bin/spotify (with app_id & wmclass being com.spotify.music)

/usr/share/applications/com.spotify.music.desktop

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/com.spotify.music.png

It's preferable on Linux for apps to follow a reverse DNS convention:

The actual spotify binary name and apt/snap package names would remain the same, this is just a request for changing the app_id, desktop file & icon.

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