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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0007119 | Kali Linux | [All Projects] General Bug | public | 2021-03-27 08:51 | 2021-03-27 21:43 |
| Reporter | ilektranik | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Product Version | 2021.1 | ||||
| Target Version | Fixed in Version | ||||
| Summary | 0007119: application.desktop files no longer function | ||||
| Description | Evidently the Kali 2020.1 update had broken application.desktop functionality. When marked as executable the designated Icon does not appear. Double clicking opens the application.desktop file in the text editor. Through extensive fiddling the Icon and launch functionality appeared a few times. Click on the application.desktop Icon and it works but immediately the Icon and functionality are lost. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Occurred with update. | ||||
| Additional Information | The exactly identical application.desktop files functioned under Kali 2020.4 and continue to function in Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS. | ||||
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I have my own slack and alacritty desktop files (in my ~/.local/share/applications ) and they show up in the menus and I'm able to launch the applications just fine. If I run "xdg-open ~/.local/share/applications/slack.desktop it opens it in a text editor because, well it's considered a text file. This is also changed in newer Ubuntu. You could try something like "gio set application.desktop metadata::trusted true" - this may allow you to launch them again. (I do not know if this is gnome specific, or if it also works in xfce, just what i found when i searched for it being broken. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-27 08:51 | ilektranik | New Issue | |
| 2021-03-27 21:43 | steev | Note Added: 0014402 | |
| 2021-03-30 03:09 | Erika carpenter | Issue cloned: 0007123 |