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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0007123Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2021-12-14 22:37
ReporterErika carpenter Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version2021.1 
Summary0007123: 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   ~0014406

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.

g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2021-12-14 22:37

administrator   ~0015519

This report has been filed against an old version of Kali. We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.
Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux (https://www.kali.org/get-kali/)?
If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://www.kali.org/docs/community/submitting-issues-kali-bug-tracker/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-03-30 03:09 Erika carpenter New Issue
2021-03-30 03:09 Erika carpenter Issue generated from: 0007119
2021-12-14 22:37 g0tmi1k Status new => closed
2021-12-14 22:37 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2021-12-14 22:37 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0015519