Bug 499060 - Make flatpak apps have their addresses in parenthesis after their proper names
Summary: Make flatpak apps have their addresses in parenthesis after their proper names
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 6.2.5
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-01-23 16:15 UTC by Fernando M. Muniz
Modified: 2025-01-23 17:50 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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2025-01-23 16:15 UTC, Fernando M. Muniz
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Description Fernando M. Muniz 2025-01-23 16:15:20 UTC
Created attachment 177626 [details]
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Currently the easiest way is to open "Edit application", but as Bug 499047 indicates, it will get removed.

So I'm requesting that flatpaks should have their addresses in parenthesis after their proper names.
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2025-01-23 17:30:15 UTC
Can you please explain why you would want this?
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-01-23 17:38:47 UTC
In general please report bugs rather than proposing solutions to problems that haven't been identified yet. See https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Issue_Reporting#Proposing_a_solution
Comment 3 Fernando M. Muniz 2025-01-23 17:41:00 UTC
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1)
> Can you please explain why you would want this?

-To know if I'm running/about to run the flatpak or AUR version of the app.
-To remove the app with terminal without having to google the address or having to install discover.
-To easily share the command of flatpaks with someone.
-Debugging, like in this case where the dev asked to use the flatpak with a uppercase F, I wouldn't have found out it was lowercase if I couldn't check it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1940341#c8
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-01-23 17:43:42 UTC
So in other words, the actual issue for #1 is "if I have multiple versions of the same app installed, it's not clear which one will get launched". That seems valid. Can you report a new bug for this so it has a clean history?

The other three are not use cases that it makes sense to support so prominently in the UI, since they're very niche. Anyone with these use cases should get used to the `flatpak` command line program.
Comment 5 Fernando M. Muniz 2025-01-23 17:50:05 UTC
Bug 499065