xfce4-terminal settings and xfce4-terminal have identical names in their desktop files

Bug #1821456 reported by Chris Dukes
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xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

1) Ubuntu Release
cddukes@greasy-desktop:~/crypt/web$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release: 18.04

2) Package version
cddukes@greasy-desktop:~/crypt/web$ apt-cache policy xfce4-terminal
xfce4-terminal:
  Installed: 0.8.7.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  Candidate: 0.8.7.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.7.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.7.3-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
     0.8.6-0ubuntu1 500
        500 http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages

3) What I expected to happen

Expected Ubuntu Desktop's start menu app search to differentiate between "Xfce Terminal" and "Xfce Terminal Settings"

4) What actually happened

Two entries labeled "Xfce Terminal" appeared. And it's difficult to choose the right one to bring up the terminal.

Poking further the package provided desktop files should have different names.
They do not.
cddukes@greasy-desktop:~/crypt/web$ grep Name= /usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal*.desktop
/usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal.desktop:Name=Xfce Terminal
/usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal.desktop:GenericName=Terminal Emulator
/usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal-settings.desktop:Name=Xfce Terminal
/usr/share/applications/xfce4-terminal-settings.desktop:GenericName=Terminal Emulator

Switched to LXQT desktop to report bug.
It only shows the menu entry for the actual terminal emulator

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xfce4-terminal 0.8.7.4-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-16.17~18.04.1-generic 4.18.20
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-16-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.6
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Sat Mar 23 11:20:01 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-03-10 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Chris Dukes (chris-dukes-aix) wrote :
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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :
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Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding) wrote :
Sean Davis (bluesabre)
Changed in xfce4-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
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