Signal-desktop, .desktop file changed name in 25.05

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I just upgraded to 25.05, everything went pretty smoothly with a very small number of updates.

One thing I noticed is that the .desktop file for signal-desktop used to be called signal-desktop.desktop and now is called signal.desktop. It was an easy update but I’m wondering if this was a deliberate breaking change or a mistake introduced?

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Probably an error, report it in nixpkgs.

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Will do, thanks for your input

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You can find more information in the PR

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Thanks. I didn’t come across this.

It looks like the change is to work around a legitimate issue and doesn’t cause me pain either way and has also been well discussed so I’ll happily drop it.

Thanks for the link.

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No prob, I just searched the derivation file in nixpkgs, blamed, found the commit that changed the name and followed it to the PR, if you wanna know how I got there.

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Thanks. I might try to follow this process to become more accustomed to doing the same.

I use git locally and I should now be familiar enough with it. Just need to follow a couple through on my own to get the process