Set the process name and icon for other apps?

[nekohayo]

I am not sure how exactly Shortwave and Amberol (and other applications) accomplish this, but when you look at them in pavucontrol (and gnome-system-monitor, etc.) they show up with their nice simple name and with their app icon:

However, Reco does not:

It would be nice if it could do that too :)

[nekohayo]

A hint taken from the same kind of report in Firefox, although I don't know if this is still the best advice today in the world of PipeWire:

we need to use pa_stream_new_with_proplist, and use pa_proplist_sets with PA_PROP_APPLICATION_ICON_NAME, and an icon, that depends on the shortBrandName

[nekohayo]

Hi @ford-prefect, I see that there's a MR #293 for this, but that the author is struggling with the code apparently not working. Would you happen to have an idea why? It seems to be done in PulseAudio style, so I'm wondering if there a newer way to do this in the world of PipeWire maybe?