gui: MacOS Spotlight doesn't show as 'Bitcoin Core' #17201

issue dannmat opened this issue on October 20, 2019

dannmat commented at 4:34 PM on October 20, 2019: none

Expected Behaviour When searching for 'Bitcoin Core' on MacOS Spotlight, it should show as 'Bitcoin Core'. 'Bitcoin Core' is the name of the executable in the directory and under Applications, so this should replicate through search.

Actual Behaviour Searching for 'Bitcoin Core' on MacOS spotlight shows as 'Bitcoin-QT', which may be confusing to users and could cause concern for a fraudulent application.

Here is a screenshot showing the wrong name:

System information MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) 2.2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3 macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta

I'm running a self-compiled version, running master as of 20/10/2019.
dannmat added the label Bug on Oct 20, 2019
fanquake added the label macOS on Oct 20, 2019
dannmat commented at 4:41 PM on October 20, 2019: none

I've read that MacOS uses the CFBundleName and CFBundleDisplayName when searching applications.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/b8f041af2d2c89afdc14f8c632dfb7fecb535cb5/share/qt/Info.plist.in#L34-L35

As you can see here, this is listed as Bitcoin-Qt.

Is this something we can change? Or is anything relying on this?
fanquake commented at 4:59 PM on October 20, 2019: member

This is a duplicate of #6463.
fanquake closed this on Oct 20, 2019
MarcoFalke locked this on Dec 16, 2021

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