Comment 88 for bug 1155327

On 2013-04-30 03:21, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:58:54PM -0000, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Please note that anything that would give the shell script another
>> name but skype would have other disadvantages.
>
> What disadvantages do you have in mind? I was thinking that updating
> the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop to point to
> 'skype-wrapper' would be sufficient.

I have made Skype start automatically at login via Startup Applications, and my ~/.local/share/applications/skype.desktop (which takes precedence over /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop) would keep calling skype. Ok, Startup Applications isn't exactly a hardly promoted feature nowadays, but I suppose we are a few that somehow have made Skype start at login.

Also, people are used to be able to just say skype in a terminal window or in the Alt+F2 command line thing. It's the natural command for starting an application named skype. :)

For those reasons I for one think that letting the wrapper keep the name /usr/bin/skype and moving the binary is preferable before renaming the wrapper and editing .desktop.