Bug 473991

Summary:	Templates in .local/share/templates don't override /usr/share/templates
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	Luís Alexandre <contribute.2f8md>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	antti.savo, kdelibs-bugs-null, meven29
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.107.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Luís Alexandre 2023-08-31 14:08:54 UTC

I was trying to override the libreoffice templates that my distro provides with local ones that I modified (so they won't get overwritten on updates) but this doesn't seem to work. Also it seems that KDE detects that a template is the same by having the same URL field in the .desktop file. Which means if they have the same relative URL they'll be treated as the same template. A workaround for now is to remove libreoffice-plasma package so that there are no templates in /usr/share/templates

Comment 1 Antti Savolainen 2025-01-10 05:45:14 UTC

If the fix implemented here does not fit your expectations, please let us know.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 191632 ***

Comment 2 Méven Car 2025-01-19 11:06:53 UTC

Not a duplicate.

It seems our de-duplication of templates ( inverse the priority as you expect here.
The user ones seem listed after the system ones, 
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1688/diffs#ab4c31cc35d63288acfb260ffe3d2e5617cc0716_1071_1078) consequently, you can't overwrite them.

Inverting the order of the templates when adding templates might be sufficient:
https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1688/diffs#ab4c31cc35d63288acfb260ffe3d2e5617cc0716_1043_1032