[Feature Request] Dynamically Set Application name

[Kraust]

I noticed that Rich Presence does not support a custom App Name (as in "Now Playing ..."). It instead takes the App Name from the Application Name from under https://discordapp.com/developers/. Is it planned in the future to allow the developer to set the App Name? I would like to create a dynamic App Name for something that I am working on.

[crmarsh]

We didn't plan on having that.. what are you working on that would use that? It sounds like it would just be confusing. Why not just set the state and/or details string?

[Kraust]

I am currently working on an application that bridges both Kodi's JSON-RPC and Discord's Rich Presence. This would allow users to display their "Playing" status from Kodi in Discord. I would prefer to dynamically set the "Playing" status to whatever the user is Playing (e.g. a song title) instead of the name of my Application. In the future this may also be extended to work on other applications that aren't Kodi, and don't already have Rich Presence Support.

Of course its understandable if Discord is keeping the App name static as a security measure. I would have also preferred to set the larger image thumbnail to a custom image as well (e.g. for an Album Cover).

[tilda]

I don't think you can do custom images.
Images are keys from the Rich Presence application. Like if I add image_large, I use it like { 'large_image': 'image_large' }.
So unless you add the album art for your (music/movie/video) library and use the image keys when they're being played, I don't think you can really do it (especially since it's limited to 150 images).
What you could really do is just display a Kodi logo or something.

[Almighty-Alpaca]

I've written a plugin for all Jetbrains IDEs that displays information about the project you're working on as rich presence. Currently it always shows IntelliJ as game but it would be nice to set it to the name of the running IDE. Currently there is no way to achieve that without creating 15 applications, one for each IDE, which is not only very ugly but also is above the limit of application per account.

[msciotti]

I'm not sure if we're going to support this, but we hear your use cases. I'm going to leave this issue open as the official "We want dynamic app names" request and de-dupe other requests into this one.

[SlySven]

Can I also mention a slightly atypical case which could benefit from this: the application I am working on is a MUD client and it would be nice if we could display the name of the MUD server that our users are connected to and are playing on alongside our application name.

Admittedly this requirement will eventually be mitigated because once MUD Servers themselves grow their own Discord guilds they and us (and hopefully other MUD clients) can agree some protocols over "standard" icon names/purposes and - with their application IDs we can provide a "Rich Presence" pass-through and package/modules/scripts to link our users state to what gets shown when they are playing on the MUD server (and they can use their full pool of their own icons rather than drawing on a our set that we can provide but which is shared across all the Servers that do not do this) ...

[msciotti]

The second part of your comment, @SlySven, is correct in that if they're all tied to the parent application id, asset slots are limited.

However, you can easily display both the server name and your application name. Your application's name will be at the top as "Playing ". You could use the details string to note which specific MUD they're playing from there.

[SlySven]

@msciotti - yeah that is the current proposal - but I want the originator of that (a co-coder) to consider replacing "Playing XXXX" with something shorter:

What this Feature Request would do would enable the project that I am coding for to merge the "Mudlet" line with the "Playing MidMUD" so that the first, BOLD line of text, to the right of the large icon, could be something like "MidMUD using Mudlet" {"Mudlet" being the Client I am coding for/on and "MidMUD" the current Server (Game) that it is connected to} and save the Details line for some, er, game state details.

BTW This is for MUD Servers that do not themselves have Discord Guilds/Servers with APPLICATION_IDs that have been provided to us. If they have furnished that detail then we could access their Icon resources that they have told us about - and in that situation we could change from being whatever the name they used when creating the APPLICATION_ID {Say "MidMUD" for instance} - to seamlessly also reflect the situation of "MidMUD using Mudlet"! - That is partly dependent though on another issue, which I will mention when I have filed it.