Bug 420694

Summary:	Two icons for snaps published by "kde"
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	chimak111 <chimak111>
Component:	Snaps	Assignee:	Scarlett Moore <sgmoore>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	neon-bugs, sgmoore
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	kcalc two icons kcolorchooser two icons palapeli two icons

Description chimak111 2020-04-28 06:11:42 UTC

Created attachment 127937 [details]
kcalc two icons

SUMMARY
At least some snaps published by "kde" show two icons to users causing confusion.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install (the stable versions) okular or kcalc, or kolourpaint, or kcolorchooser, or palapeli using `sudo snap install …`
2. Enter the first few letters (or entire name) of the snap in an application menu's search box. 

OBSERVED RESULT
You'll see two icons. In other words, users are presented with two hits.


EXPECTED RESULT
There should be just the one result.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and Xubuntu 20.04.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Reported in
When I install KolourPaint why does it have two icons? How can I fix it? ::: https://askubuntu.com/q/1231769/248158
and
Why is there two instances of “Okular” and how do I get rid of the other one? ::: https://askubuntu.com/q/1230835/248158

There seem to be redundant .desktop files in `/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications`.

A workaround is to copy the .desktop files over to `~/.local/share/applications` and add "NoDisplay=true" to one of the .desktop files.

Also reported at https://bugs.launchpad.net/snap-store/+bug/1875135 because I didn't know this was the right place.

Comment 1 chimak111 2020-04-28 06:12:21 UTC

Created attachment 127938 [details]
kcolorchooser two icons

Comment 2 chimak111 2020-04-28 06:12:52 UTC

Created attachment 127939 [details]
palapeli two icons

Comment 3 Scarlett Moore 2023-04-06 18:01:19 UTC

Well, and the fact is that sometimes there are actually two versions installed. Aka I have an okular snap installed and I have okular installed via apt-get. In the properties the paths are different. /snap/bin/okular and okular. I don't think I can do anything about this. Can you check to see if indeed this is what is going on? Right click both icons, go to edit application and check the path on the application tab.

Comment 4 Bug Janitor Service 2023-04-21 03:45:47 UTC

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Comment 5 Bug Janitor Service 2023-05-06 03:46:17 UTC

This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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