Where to report a Snap/Panel bug

[Keith]

On 7/4/23 3:58 PM, Little Girl wrote:
> Hey there,

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> 
> To fix it, I then have to delete the invisible Firefox shortcut from
> the panel and recreate it from the K menu the same way I originally
> did. It then works and looks fine until the next time an update makes
> it vanish.
> 
> I'm not sure what causes it and what prevents it from happening every
> time, but somebody on one of the teams will know. Even if the Snap is
> being replaced when that command is run, I'm pretty sure the path to
> the executable and the icon would remain the same, so you'd think the
> shortcut would continue to work without incident regardless of the
> replacement.
> 

The path to the executable doesn't change (/snap/bin/firefox), but the 
path to the icon does (/snap/firefox/<current enabled 
revision>/default256.png). On my system, 
/snap/firefox/2850/default256.png is the current icon path with 2850 
being the current enabled firefox revision. When a new version is 
installed, firefox_firefox.desktop file in 
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications will be updated and the icon path 
changed to include the new snap revision.

To avoid having to recreate your shortcut every time firefox is updated, 
you can copy /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop 
file to ~/.local/share/applications and in it modify the entry, 
"Icon=/snap/firefox/2850/default256.png" to 
"Icon=/snap/firefox/current/default256.png". This works in gnome as 
.desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications supersede those that are 
located in system directories like /usr/share/applications and 
/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications. I'm guessing it'll work in kde as 
well.

-- 
Keith