Bug 366224 - chromium-browser not displayed in application launcher, despite /usr/share/applications desktop entry
Summary: chromium-browser not displayed in application launcher, despite /usr/share/ap...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget (show other bugs)
Version: 5.6.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: David Edmundson
URL:
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Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2016-07-29 02:17 UTC by Reuben
Modified: 2020-12-08 04:34 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Attachments
Chromium desktop file (12.26 KB, application/x-desktop)
2016-08-10 12:07 UTC, Reuben
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Description Reuben 2016-07-29 02:17:14 UTC
I have three .desktop entries in /usr/share/applications for browsers:

> ls -al /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12559 Jun  2 20:39 /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop
> ls -al /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8445 Jul 18 21:23 /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop
> ls -al /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9177 Jun  6 07:37 /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

Firefox and Chrome appear perfectly well in the application menu. Chromium does not, and cannot be searched for; I can only launch it from the terminal.

It shows up in gnome and unity's menus.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-08-10 08:17:30 UTC
Can you paste the chromium-browser.desktop file? Perhaps it's marked as "not show in kde" or something like that.
Comment 2 Reuben 2016-08-10 12:07:10 UTC
Created attachment 100523 [details]
Chromium desktop file

Thanks for looking into this. I've attached it.
Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-08-10 12:18:03 UTC
Thanks. Interesting, my /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop is identical to yours and mine shows up in both Kickoff and KRunner just fine :/

Can you check whether it shows up in (right click Application Launcher) → Edit Applications and there in the "Internet" category? Also, can you check whether you don't (somehow) created a chromium-browser.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications, files in there take precedence over system-wide installed ones?
Comment 4 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-27 15:49:56 UTC
Chromium shows fine for me in Middle click on Desktop menu and in Kickoff in:

Distribution: KDE neon Developer Edition Unstable Branches
KDE Plasma Version: 5.10.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.37.0
Qt Version: 5.9.1
Kernel Version: 4.10.0-32-generic
Comment 5 Reuben 2017-08-27 15:57:41 UTC
Issue still exists for me with fresh install.

Chromium shows for me in:
Unity
Gnome
i3/dmenu
i3/roti

Chromium does not show in plasma launcher, either by search or looking in the internet section.

The relevant section of /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop is:

```
Exec=chromium-browser %U
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=chromium-browser
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;Incognito;TempProfile;
X-AppInstall-Package=chromium-browser
```
Comment 6 Alexander Mentyu 2017-08-27 16:04:53 UTC
Here is mine /usr/share/applications/chromium-browser.desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Chromium Web Browser
GenericName=Web Browser
Comment=Access the Internet
Exec=chromium-browser %U
Terminal=false
X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=chromium-browser
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml_xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Actions=NewWindow;Incognito;TempProfile;
X-AppInstall-Package=chromium-browser

[Desktop Action NewWindow]
Name=Open a New Window
Exec=chromium-browser

[Desktop Action Incognito]
Name=Open a New Window in incognito mode
Exec=chromium-browser --incognito

[Desktop Action TempProfile]
Name=Open a New Window with a temporary profile
Exec=chromium-browser --temp-profile
Comment 7 Justin Zobel 2020-11-08 07:20:48 UTC
Chromium has now moved to a snap for Ubuntu based distributions so that's what I've installed and it's showing in my menu with latest Plasma from git master.

Can you please test and confirm if this is still an issue, thanks.
Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2020-11-23 04:34:02 UTC
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Comment 9 Bug Janitor Service 2020-12-08 04:34:26 UTC
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