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: REPORTED ---    
Severity: critical CC: hacknorris, jr, neon-bugs, sitter
Priority: NOR    
Version: 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 
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