Bug 2242495 - firefox package installs (broken) desktop files for firefox-x11/firefox-wayland
Summary: firefox package installs (broken) desktop files for firefox-x11/firefox-wayland
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 2242454
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 38
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-10-06 14:47 UTC by Nicolas Fella
Modified: 2023-10-06 15:05 UTC (History)
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Description Nicolas Fella 2023-10-06 14:47:03 UTC
Installing the firefox package installs three desktop files: firefox.desktop, firefox-x11.desktop, and firefox-wayland.desktop. All three show up in the Plasma application launcher.

The latter two seem to allow to explicitly start Firefox in X11/Wayland mode. Presenting those as user-visible options is a bad idea in the first place IMO as those are implementation details that most users are not concerned about.

What's worse though is that launching firefox-x11.desktop/firefox-wayland.desktop doesn't actually work unless the separate firefox-x11/firefox-wayland packages are installed. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use Fedora 38 KDE
2.Open application launcher 
3. Search for Firefox
Actual Results:  
Three search results: "Firefox", "Firefox on X11", "Firefox on Wayland".

Launching the latter two doesn't work because of missing executables

Expected Results:  
Launching all of them works, or ideally only one "Firefox" result

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2023-10-06 15:05:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2242454 ***


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