Missing application shortcut on linux

[MulverineX]

Describe the bug

Upon installation, no .desktop file is generated & provided.

Reproduction

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Expected behavior

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Platform and versions

PopOS 22.04 (system76 ubuntu jammy flavor)

Stack trace

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Additional context

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[krunalcodes]

Can confirm this happens on Ubuntu 22.04 as well. Any work arounds for now? @MulverineX

[MulverineX]

afaict not any good ones, I'd rather not screw up my distro. If I happen upon a decent workaround I'll post it here. @imkrunal

One thing that the team could opt to do for now is to release with flatpak, that way using a sandboxed libssl1.1

Edit:
Oh shoot, I thought this was the libssl issue on accident. 🤣

This would be very easy to work around yes, simply make a .desktop file yourself

[HeavenVolkoff]

Is this happening when using the .appimage or the .deb release?

Flatpak's release is planned, but due to it not being natively supported by tauri, it will require some work and is low priority for the moment, hope to have it done by beta release

[krunalcodes]

I have used the .deb release.

[HeavenVolkoff]

Odd, when I tested the .deb it did create a .desktop file. However, there are currently other issues with the .deb release, so this is probably one more. I will close this issue in favor of #1512, because it is where I am centralizing all the .deb release issues

[joezhouchenye]

Ubuntu 22.04.

The .desktop file is indeed created in /usr/share/applications. However, it should be created in ~/.local/share/applications instead.

[HeavenVolkoff]

@joezhouchenye The correct location for .desktop files when installed by system packages is /usr/share/applications. ~/.local/share/applications is exclusively for user installed programs, outside the distribution package manager.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#menus
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries#Application_entry

[joezhouchenye]

Then, some permission or owner problem I think. I cannot find it in the application menu on Ubuntu 22.04.

The owner and permission look different from other .desktop files in /usr/share/applications

[joezhouchenye]

I managed to get it shown in the application menu by copying it to the user applications folder and using chown and chmod.