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IDProjectCategoryView StatusDate SubmittedLast Update
0007119Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2021-03-27 08:512021-06-25 01:00
Reporterilektranik Assigned Tosteev  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Product Version2021.1 
Summary0007119: 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.

Activities

steev

steev

2021-03-27 21:43

manager   ~0014402

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.

Issue History

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
2021-06-25 01:00 steev Assigned To => steev
2021-06-25 01:00 steev Status new => closed
2021-06-25 01:00 steev Resolution open => no change required