Comment 7 for bug 1606901

I looked at the status of this today in Ubuntu 18.04. GNOME Software has been updated so that it shows better results in this case instead of an error. (But it's still not perfect. Try gedit as the test case instead of nautilus.)

Seb Bacher suggested that gnome-shell is probably wrong for sending the old .desktop ID to gnome-software instead of the new one so I'm opening a gnome-shell task here.

We also discussed this general issue in the Ubuntu Desktop team today. We do not intend to drop the compatibility desktop files now for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS since they provide a useful service to upgrading Unity users. It looks like we will probably drop them in 18.10 though since they should no longer be needed then for GNOME or Unity.