Bug 470455

Summary:	Override Desktop entries sometimes get applied, sometimes dont
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Henning <boredsquirrel>
Component:	Task Manager and Icons-Only Task Manager widgets	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:	6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Henning 2023-05-30 15:48:44 UTC

What I do: I have some apps where I dont like the icon.

Or I have another appstarting starting a specific Firefox profile.

Or things like this.

What I do is copy the appstarter of the original to ~/.local/share/applications/x.desktop and it shows up.

AFAIK normally that appstarter should override the system one, as kind of the users power. 

What happens though, is that Firefox often doesnt follow that. Sometimes it still shows the default icon, while the pined custom one is then a duplicate.

I can imagine this is due to how the processes are identified, its not a Flatpak-only problem though, as this happens on RPM firefox too.

My proposal is to somehow fix app detection, so that the icon doesnt reset all the time but actually respects the metadata stated in the appstarters / Desktop entries.

Specified App:
firefox-113.0.1-4.fc38.x86_64

--- Software ---
OS: Fedora Linux 38.20230530.0 (Kinoite)
KDE Plasma: 5.27.5
KDE Frameworks: 5.106.0
Qt: 5.15.9
Kernel: 6.2.15-300.fc38.x86_64
Compositor: wayland

--- Hardware ---
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
RAM: 13.5 GB
GPU: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
Video memory: 2048MB

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-06-05 04:28:48 UTC

> I can imagine this is due to how the processes are identified
Yep.

> What I do is copy the appstarter of the original to ~/.local/share/applications/x.desktop and it shows up.
After you do this, do you remember to run `kbuildsycoca5` in a terminal window? If not, does the problem get fixed if you do?

If not, does the problem get fixed if you override the icon using the GUI app kmenuedit, rather than manually copying a .desktop file around?

Comment 2 Henning 2023-06-07 14:07:59 UTC

I didnt know of that command. Kmenuedit doesnt work, as the appstarters are from Flatpaks 99% and these are symlinked.

Running the command did not fix my firefox displaying two icons for example, which is the /usr/share/icons/ and the ~/.local/share/icons one

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-01-09 22:10:03 UTC

This should work as expected 100% of the time starting in Plasma 6.3