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This is caused by gnome software printing to an invisible terminal "Software should be run as a non-root user. Exiting..." This also breaks the panel "App Details" option. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as root 2. Click Software 3. Note that nothing happens 4. Right click on "App Details" notice that nothing works.
Thanks for a bug report. Running desktop as root is something you usually do not want to do. The gnome-software rejects to run as such on purpose, intentionally, hence it's not a bug, but a feature.
More info here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2851#note_2466163
Well circular justification because it allows login, then it should deal with appropriate escalation or remove the icons.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/2962
You cannot remove the icon from the GUI just because running as root, that's impossible. You'd also need to return it back when someone else logs in, but those users do not have permission to manipulate system directories, not talking about read-only mounted /usr on image-based distros. In any case, this is not Fedora decision, it is the upstream gnome-software decision. You can open a bug there [1], if you wish, but from my point of view there is no bug here. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/
Okay, you already opened it. Thank you.