Bug 495405

Summary:	Session desktop files leftover after removing Kate distro package
Product:	[Applications] kate	Reporter:	Justin Zobel <justin>
Component:	sessions	Assignee:	KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	christoph, waqar.17a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Justin Zobel 2024-10-27 01:04:09 UTC

So I noticed an issue on my PC today with Kate. I removed it using my package manager but there's still a menu entry for it, confused I looked and found ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kate.desktop and this is a problem because kate is no longer installed and it calls Exec=kate -b %U

It's because I have a default session set I think? 

So is there a way we can do sessions without this left over desktop file that is now broken?

A note as well, I removed Kate from my distro packages as I wanted to run it instead from git master and installed the nightly Flatpak which isn't listed in my app launchers because of this file taking precedence.

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2024-10-31 22:11:50 UTC

I don't think that will work as that file is needed for this feature:

commit f31ab88fc109dd09b6666e8d3146799b047da74f
Author: Kai Uwe Broulik <kde@privat.broulik.de>
Date:   Mon Nov 27 11:16:51 2017 +0100

    Add Sessions as jump list actions
    
    This adds Kate sessions as jump list actions that allow to launch Kate with a specific session from application launchers and task manager.
    
    CCBUG: 383249
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D7203

Comment 2 Justin Zobel 2024-11-01 07:11:12 UTC

That is really unfortunate as it kills Kate opening at all if the user were to switch from Kate from their distro to Kate from a Flatpak.

Only because I know those .desktop files are there did I know to remove them to fix it launching.

Comment 3 Waqar Ahmed 2024-11-01 07:16:17 UTC

I dont think we can do anything about this.

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-11-03 16:06:09 UTC

Can not see how we shall solve that. We need the desktop file for that feature and I see no way that we could clean it up.