Bug 448605

Summary: deinstalling previously installed gnome causes fatory reset of apps, settings and data
Product: [KDE Neon] neon Reporter: hacknorris
Component: Packages Testing EditionAssignee: Neon Bugs <neon-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: critical CC: hacknorris, jr, neon-bugs, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Neon   
OS: Linux   
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Description hacknorris 2022-01-16 16:04:00 UTC 
SUMMARY
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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. install kde neon (known)
2. install full gnome from cli (sudo apt install gnome)
3. do a few things (time delay)
4. deinstall gnome DE (also from cli sudo apt remove gnome, gnome-*)
OBSERVED RESULT
- files from home directory removed, apps removed, settings resetted to default
EXPECTED RESULT
- deinstalling gnome while also keeping apps and other data and normally continuing work on kde desktop
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.89.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-40-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-8130U CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 7.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
this bug happened at **night** while deinstalling gnome, so i dont have any terminal outputs or other things...
(this is this bugs you wanted know)
Comment 1 hacknorris 2022-02-24 19:24:27 UTC 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALmUd-C-8uA
Comment 3 Carlos De Maine 2025-09-20 09:36:30 UTC 
Thank you for your bug report! 
However this bug report was created/provided previous to 01/01/2023 and also has not received any updates since  before 01/01/2025. 
Unfortunately KDE neon no longer provides updates for anything older than noble 24.04 based edition's.
Please upgrade to KDE neon noble and if you can reproduce the issue after upgrading to an active version, feel free to re-open this bug report.
Thanks for understanding!