Bug 368409

Summary: plasma.desktop and plasmawayland.desktop have identical Name-Fields
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: qqqqqqqqq9
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: asturm, bhush94, kde, notmart, plasma-bugs, polynomial-c, rdieter
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.7.4   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.18.0

Description qqqqqqqqq9 2016-09-07 16:53:27 UTC 
Problem:
Both /usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop and /usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasmawayland.desktop contain
Name=Plasma 
which leads to identical entries in the login manager.

Please rename one of them to make them distinguishable.

Thanks.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-09-07 17:04:35 UTC 
As far as I know SDDM would actually append "Wayland" to all wayland session at which point it doesn't matter that they're named the same.

What SDDM version is this?
Comment 2 Marco Martin 2016-09-09 16:08:22 UTC 
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> As far as I know SDDM would actually append "Wayland" to all wayland session
> at which point it doesn't matter that they're named the same.
> 
> What SDDM version is this?

are we sure? on one way or the other should be fixed before 5.8
Comment 3 qqqqqqqqq9 2016-09-11 10:36:57 UTC 
Hi, sorry for the delay.

I'm using lightdm (1.18.3) which doesn't add (wayland).
I check with sddm and that works fine.
Comment 4 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) 2019-07-02 07:53:36 UTC 
This has now also been reported at Gentoo downstream:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/689120

This only happens in lightdm and is quite confusing because when accidentally choosing the wrong session and there's no wayland support being installed, it appears as if KDE simply crashes and returns back to lightdm. 
A user not knowing what happens here might get a really big frustration experience.

Please give both .desktop files different "Name" values.