Where to report a Snap/Panel bug

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Dienstag, dem 04.07.2023 um 16:58 -0400 schrieb Little Girl:
> 
> When Snap pops up the reminder on screen every so often to tell me
> I need to update it, I run the sudo snap refresh firefox command. I
> seem to remember being told that that replaces the Snap.
> 

> other times, it suffers a rather dramatic
> cosmetic change by vanishing from sight. When this happens, the
> invisible shortcut still takes up the same amount of space on the
> panel, is still clickable, and still works.

yes, snap upgrades are atomic, that means unlike debs or rpms that
bindly overwrite existing old files (i.e. icons) on disk during
upgrade, a snap is actually fully removed before the new updated snap
is added.

that indeed exposes some issues on software like panels ... while gnome
gracefully handles the removal/re-addition of the icon file in its dash
(panel), KDE might not do that.

there are two sides of this "bug" ... one is the behavior of snaps
which other software does not seem to handle very well yet (but will
surely learn it over time), the other is the respective panel ...

for the snap side you should open a bug on snapd (if there isnt one
already) on launchpad ... just use "ubuntu-bug snapd" like for any
other bug you report. i.e. there might be some call needed to update
some icon cache specifically for KDE that is not handled properly or
some such.

for the panel side you might have to poke KDE ... i know there is quite
some effort on the KDE side currently to integrate snaps a lot better
so there might be interest to pick this up. the thing you describe
after a reboot smells like (as i wrote above already) some stale
outdatd cache on the KDE side to me ...

also note since about two months you should not need to do anything but
close the app when the update notificaion shows up ... with latest
snapd the update gets downloaded in advance, sits there until you close
the app and gets automatically applied (you get a notificaion that the
app is usable again once it is done) ... 

so here snap is finally moving further towards the no-touch process it
has been planned to use from the beginning ...

ciao
	oli
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