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Description of problem: I found out that I have two identical Google Chrome icons showing in my Gnome 3 applications search. After debugging deeper, I found that google-chrome.rpm runs this in its post-install script: xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop Which seems pretty OK to me. But the xdg-desktop-menu then installs google-chrome.desktop file into two locations: /usr/local/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop /usr/share/applnk/google-chrome.desktop I don't know whether this is OK. But Gnome 3 displays that as two same icons in the app menu (when I remove one of the files, one of the icons disappear). So either this is a bug in xdg-utils (shouldn't install into two places) or Gnome 3 (shouldn't display same file in two locations twice). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.9.20110714.fc16.noarch Gnome 3.2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. xdg-desktop-menu install /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop (or some other desktop file) 2. look at the two locations
/usr/share/applnk is very much deprecated, so xdg-menu should almost certainly no longer use it. (I'm a little surprised desktops, like gnome here, still show it's contents honestly).
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I still see it in Fedora 17.
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If I run it as root in F19, it no longer installs into /usr/share/applnk, great. But if I run it as a common user, it still installs into two locations: ~/.local/share/applications/ ~/.gnome/apps/
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(In reply to Kamil Páral from comment #5) > If I run it as root in F19, it no longer installs into /usr/share/applnk, > great. But if I run it as a common user, it still installs into two > locations: > > ~/.local/share/applications/ > ~/.gnome/apps/ The same situation in Fedora 21, however, in GNOME, I see just a single icon, so everything is OK from user perspective. xdg-desktop-menu could however stop installing to ~/.gnome/apps, because it's apparently not needed anymore.