Bug 509305 - Discover shows "not installed but has data present" notification for apps that haven't been installed yet
Summary: Discover shows "not installed but has data present" notification for apps tha...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: Discover
Classification: Applications
Component: Flatpak Backend (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.4.80
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-09-09 11:47 UTC by aronkvh
Modified: 2025-09-25 09:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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2025-09-09 11:47 UTC, aronkvh
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Description aronkvh 2025-09-09 11:47:44 UTC
Created attachment 184842 [details]
discover_datapresent_screenshot

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Tried searching for Chrome 
2. Clicked on a Flathub result

OBSERVED RESULT
3. Got a "Chrome is not installed but has data present" inline notification

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE Linux 2025-09-03
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.80
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.18.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.4-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 4000
Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-09-24 09:02:58 UTC
Do you have any folders called `com.google.Chrome` in `~/.var/app/` ?
Comment 2 aronkvh 2025-09-24 15:56:43 UTC
(In reply to Akseli Lahtinen from comment #1)
> Do you have any folders called `com.google.Chrome` in `~/.var/app/` ?

Sorry, I forgot about this.
I installed it, so now I do. Uninstalling and removing data from Discover deleted the folder, but I guess that doesn't help. 
These folders are still there, even though I didn't install the corresponding apps:
io.gitlab.librewolf-community
io.github.ungoogled_software.ungoogled_chromium
org.chromium.Chromium
Comment 3 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-09-25 09:29:32 UTC
Okay can confirm, I have the same bug with librewolf. It seems the base image comes with the folder pre-set, with the plasma-browser-integration-host script in there.

To me this seems intentional, but will forward it to the KDE Linux folk, just in case.

But I think it's safe to delete these folders if you do not plan on using them.