| Summary: | some --user flatpaks have the author name as name instead | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | Henning <boredsquirrel> |
| Component: | kcm_flatpak | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | joshiesuhaas0, me, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | 6.0.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5700 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | screenshot of the flatpak app list displaying author names instead. | ||
An alternative would also be to use the desktop entry cat $HOME/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications/tld.app.id.desktop And then grep the name in the correct language and cut after the '=' This is unfortunately a bug in Flatpak itself. You can see the same thing in `flatpak list` run in a terminal window. Nice, thanks for finding that. I knew there was a bug report in there somewhere but I had lost track of it. I can confirm that this local workaround works if you're using the fixed version of flatpak: list=$(flatpak list --app --columns=application) for app in $list do flatpak install --user --reinstall -y "$app" done this is fixed with flatpak 1.15.8 background: the parser used the first occurrence of "name" in the metadata, and "developer name" occurs first. So it took that. I wouldnt recommend my script XD that made plasma crash. Just reinstall the affected apps, solved it for me. Note that the reinstall will not remove any data. You can also use it to change flatpak apps from --user to --system. --user flatpak apps dont require permissions to manage. If you have a system with some kind of child safety rules, using an unprivileged user and system flatpaks will make more sense. system flatpaks are the default. |
Created attachment 169245 [details] screenshot of the flatpak app list displaying author names instead. I suppose systemsettings uses "flatpak info tld.app.id" to get the name Some apps have the name falsely set, while it appears correctly in the desktop entry. This causes stuff like "the GIMP team" or "the inkscape community" to be shown as the name, instead of the correct one. I suppose the way of fetching the name is not the best? I remember it worked well some versions ago, on Plasma 5. So I suppose there already was a change in fetching the name. An alternative would be to always use the third element of the app id. It could also just be an issue with upstream naming, as it seems a lot of people are putting their author name where the app name should be. I attach a screenshot just for completeness.