Lutris flatpak creating application menu shortcuts at the wrong directory, with invalid launchers

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Lutris flatpak creating application menu shortcuts at the wrong directory, with invalid launchers

ek-is-anika opened this issue a year ago · comments

Heya, I have lutris v0.5.13 installed through flatpak, and it seems like if I click "Create application menu shortcut", the shortcut gets created at ~/.var/app/net.lutris.Lutris/data/applications, and not at ~/.local/share/applications, even with explicit access to that directory.
I have tried simply linking it to ~/.local/share/applications, but they don't have an icon, nor do they work when you launch them.

I have also tried looking for solutions online, but all I could find were reddit posts that I could not access, because it was marked as NSFW, and a discourse post with no replies, so I have no way of properly fixing this without a dev's help.
Thanks in advance!

Maximiliano · Answer 1 · Fri Oct 13 2023 13:48:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Lutris just needs to use the portal. This is a duplicate anyways

wsdfhjxc · Answer 2 · Sun Oct 15 2023 04:16:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Instead of the real path, give Lutris access to xdg-data/applications.

Mathieu Comandon · Answer 3 · Mon Oct 16 2023 20:25:44 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I think this should fix the issue: lutris/lutris@0531e7f

Lutris just needs to use the portal.

How is this done?

Maximiliano · Answer 4 · Mon Oct 16 2023 21:21:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

One option is to talk directly via DBus and use this interface https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/#gdbus-org.freedesktop.portal.DynamicLauncher/

The other option is to use libportal (easier to use, but requires to add one more dependency) and use something like https://libportal.org/method.Portal.dynamic_launcher_install.html. If you ping me later today, I can try to search for an example of how to load libportal from pygobject, its not hard but not super obvious either.