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#308 Enhancing getting the title name
I'm using LXTerminal 0.3.0 and I'm noticing that if an application with Terminal=true set in its .desktop file gets started it does now show more or less the application name as title instead of (I think it was) "[LXTerminal]". For example for htop the string "htop" is shown (the only reference in its .desktop file for this case would be either the Exec or Icon key so I assume this information is read from the Exec key). I think it would be more useful if the information would be read from the Name key (with eventually falling back for example to the Exec key if the Name key is missing) as it is possibly more accurate.
As a side note: I have posted this issue already in the past to the related specification ( https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89614 ) to support a TerminalTitle key which should be used for the title but it may get rejected or still need a while to get processed.
On thinking about this it might make sense to also use the Icon key to display the related icon in such cases.
With the information from bug #852 it looks like I was a bit confused about the order and I think now that LXTerminal does set the title from the passed -e option as a fallback (basically indirectly from the Exec key; also I think this behavior should be documented). So the related LXDE part that executes the .desktop file needs to pass the -t option so that LXTerminal can make use of it. Also for the icon LXTerminal would need to support an option to set the icon which could then be passed from the related LXDE part too.