Duplicate Cosmic Settings Desktop Entries

[sebastianrasor]

This issue might belong in upstream, but I wanted to bring it up here first. I'm not entirely sure what is causing this issue. Very low severity, just a little bit confusing why there's two entries.

[Thatoo]

I have the same issue for both Cosmic Settings and Nextcloud Client but no other apps.

[Elias-Graf]

Isn't that just the open window when you select it in the launcher it focuses it, and the actual desktop file? I can only reproduce this, if I have a COSMIC Settings window open.

In this case, I have two windows open of the zen browser, and thus three entries:

[Luk45135]

@Elias-Graf No they are talking about the app library (opened by clicking on Applications or pressing SUPER+A). btw. same issue here.

[Luk45135]

I have the same issue for both Cosmic Settings and Nextcloud Client but no other apps.

For me it also happens with mpv Media Player and Manage Printing.

[Elias-Graf]

@Luk45135 Ah sorry, you're right of course.

This happens for me with the Mozilla VPN program as well. @Luk45135 do the programs you have mentioned install some sort of service / is registered in the system configuration and home-manager? Because for the Mozilla VPN, it seems like one of the desktop files comes from enabling the service, and one of them from the client, I added in home-manager.

Maybe, in this flake, we somehow add cosmic-settings from nixpkgs, but also add it through compiling some service / cosmic-comp, or other output?

I would be interested in where the two entries come from (as it appears to be displaying correctly in the cosmic-launcher). But sadly, cosmic-applibrary doesn't currently build for me.

Possibly related:

• [Feature Request] Hide duplicate icons pop-os/cosmic-applibrary#169
• fix: mark duplicates with their source pop-os/cosmic-applibrary#122

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Regarding Mozilla VPN, I've discovered that I don't need the package in home-manager at all. Simply having services.mozillavpn.enable = true is enough. Maybe that could solve the issues with some of the programs? For example, Nextcloud was mentioned, where I can imagine that there is a service that needs to be registered.

[Luk45135]

do the programs you have mentioned install some sort of service / is registered in the system configuration and home-manager?

Yes, that seemed to be the case i installed mpv in the system configuration and with home-manager options, but i don't know why that happens with Manage Printing i.e. CUPS