Installing Desktop PWAs generates .desktop files in ~/Desktop

[jeankhawand]

Description

Brave generates .desktop files for Desktop PWA at ~/Desktop while their actual location is at /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications

Steps to Reproduce

1. Installing Desktop PWAs through this method
2. after installation, brave generate brave-<random-string>-Default.desktop and adds it to ~/Desktop/
3. while the default .desktop files are located at /usr/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications

Actual result:

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.20.110 Chromium: 88.0.4324.192 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	31b458a18f133db9203eb5a5dd6552de0716dda3-refs/branch-heads/4324_182@{#6}
OS	Linux

[abbasnaqdi]

+1

[Malix-Labs]

This is Chromium related

Also, it is intended

They are generated both in ~/Desktop and /usr/share/applications/ / ~/.local/share/applications

[lduktus]

How did you installed Brave?

I had the same issue (snap version). Also no icon placed anywhere and the command in the .desktop file didn't worked for me, I had to overwrite the command to work properly.

This is Chromium related

Interestingly Chromium (also snap) just worked: the PWA appeared with a proper icon and no .desktop file on my ~/Desktop.

Last time I tried the flatpak version it worked, but also not out of the box, you have to give access to ~/.local/share/icons and ~/.local/share/applications, see:
23005

For the flatpak issue: It would be nice to just have access to this paths by default.

For the snap issue same thing: Chromium just places the files in these standard directories.