What you describe looks an another issue. Renaming works, as you said it uses Name= which is good enough because the .desktop doesn't ship any translation for your custom name and you want to get the name you type used anyway and not a translation of it. Please open an another bug for the espresso issue you face
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Fix Released -- Can't rename _SOME_ icons when they are on destkop. https://launchpad.net/bugs/39002 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs