Bug 458815

Summary:	Apps are missing their context menus' "Manage or uninstall addons" items if their AppStream ID doesn't match their .desktop file name
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	mikel5764, nicolas.fella, noahadvs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458812
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Description Nate Graham 2022-09-06 20:22:46 UTC

This menu item is shown if the app is detected to have an AppStream ID, which we find by looking for AppStream components that match its .desktop file name in actionlist.cpp (https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/kicker/plugin/actionlist.cpp#L433).

This produces false negatives because the .desktop fie name and the AppStream ID don't have to match and this is a perfectly valid state of affairs. When this happens, the app's context menu in Kicker, Kickoff, and Dashboard is missing the "Manage or uninstall addons" menu item.

This affects for example System Monitor, whose desktop file name is org.kde.plasma-systemmonitor.desktop, but its AppStream ID is org.kde.plasma.systemmonitor.

We should find a more robust way of getting an app's AppStream ID, since assuming it matches the name of the .desktop file is not reliable.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-09-06 20:23:05 UTC

Fixing this would also generically fix Bug 458812.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2022-09-07 17:05:47 UTC

This was traced to an upstream bug: https://github.com/ximion/appstream/issues/431.

Comment 3 Nicolas Fella 2022-09-07 18:45:48 UTC

Narrator: It was not an upstream bug

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2022-09-07 18:57:20 UTC

In fact the originally reported bug itself was faulty.