You have researched the problem pretty well. Unfortunately I have no secret information on how to make it work in both conditions, please let me know if you find anything out!

pbek on 10 Sep 2018

I also ran into this, and can confirm this temporary workaround:

sudo mv /usr/share/applications/PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /usr/share/applications/QOwnNotes.desktop

PaulVanSchayck on 17 Oct 2018

That was the previous name, see #933.
I will try adding StartupWMClass=QOwnNotes to the desktop file in the next release. Can you please try using the PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop and adding above line to it and report if that works.

pbek on 17 Oct 2018

Yup, this also seems to works! Thanks for that

PaulVanSchayck on 17 Oct 2018

🎉1

awesome!

pbek on 17 Oct 2018

18.10.3

fixed QOwnNotes favorite button in Gnome dash

pbek on 18 Oct 2018

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

pbek on 18 Oct 2018

On Ubuntu it does not work as expected.
obraz
I will update if any of workarounds above works

OtharSmirnow on 20 Dec 2019

On Ubuntu it does not work as expected.

I will update if any of workarounds above works

Where did you install QOwnNotes from? Can you please post the output from the debug settings (see issue template).

pbek on 20 Dec 2019

Installed snap from Ubuntu Software:
Channel: Stable
Version: 19.12.13
Last Update: 18.12.2019
Developer: Patrizio Bekerle

QOwnNotes.log

OtharSmirnow on 20 Dec 2019

I'm not sure how Gnome (or are you using Unity?) is handling desktop files from snaps. If you are using the stable channel this desktop file is used: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/develop/snap/gui/PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop

pbek on 20 Dec 2019

Could you test the Ubuntu PPA, AppImage or Flatpack of QOwnNotes if you have the same problem? see https://www.qownnotes.org/installation

pbek on 21 Dec 2019

I am running Ubuntu 19.10 with Gnome

Tested AppImage - same story.

I created a .desktop file with Arronax and it worked well(placed in /usr/share/applications), but I wasn't able to edit the one in snap.
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Icon=folder-copy
Name=QOwnNotes-test
Exec=qownnotes
Terminal=false
Hidden=false
Categories=Office; Utility
StartupWMClass=QOwnNotes
Comment=test

may be unrelated:
when starting from terminal I got this
Warning: Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported ((null):0, (null)) Warning: propsReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.758\" (uid=1000 pid=12069 comm=\"/snap/qownnotes/4219/usr/bin/QOwnNotes -style=Fusi\" label=\"snap.qownnotes.qownnotes (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties\" member=\"GetAll\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=1372 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")" ((null):0, (null)) Warning: nmReply "An AppArmor policy prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient; type=\"method_call\", sender=\":1.758\" (uid=1000 pid=12069 comm=\"/snap/qownnotes/4219/usr/bin/QOwnNotes -style=Fusi\" label=\"snap.qownnotes.qownnotes (enforce)\") interface=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" member=\"GetDevices\" error name=\"(unset)\" requested_reply=\"0\" destination=\"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager\" (uid=0 pid=1372 comm=\"/usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon \" label=\"unconfined\")" ((null):0, (null)) Warning: "Object path cannot be empty" ((null):0, (null)) Warning: Unable to find dictionary for "pl_PL" in path "/pl_PL" ((null):0, (null)) Info: "Serwer QOwnNotes oczekuje na połączenia na porcie 22222" ((null):0, (null))

OtharSmirnow on 23 Dec 2019

Same problem on Gnome 3.36.3 while using the snap version (20.8.10). Could we reopen the ticket given that the problem persists?

datumbox on 29 Aug 2020

Doesn't make a lot difference as long nobody knows how to fix it. 😁

pbek on 29 Aug 2020

😄1

If there is anything I can do to help debug I'm more than happy to help. Let me know.

datumbox on 29 Aug 2020

The only thing that comes to mind is to play with the desktop file or research how the favorites in Gnome work and why it has troubles detecting the application correctly. I don't have this issue under KDE.

pbek on 30 Aug 2020

Here is an ugly workaround. If you rename the file qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop to qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop it works fine. This is located in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/ and also in your ~/.local/share/applications/ if you have custom shortcuts. No other desktop file needs to be modified.

The way I found this was by observing the naming convention of the desktop files of all of my snaps. Any snap with desktop file not named like {snapname}_{snapname}.desktop has exactly the same problem (excluding the ubuntu snap store which I don't understand why it works).

@pbek Is the naming you are using valid? If yes, looks like an upstream problem as you hinted originally.

datumbox on 31 Aug 2020

I guess snapcraft chose that name. The original file that is used is https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/develop/build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snap/gui/PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop

pbek on 31 Aug 2020

And as far as I know if the name is changed it invalidates all links to desktop files... 😬

pbek on 31 Aug 2020

Do you have a snapcraft account to raise the question in their forums and see if there is a workaround or proposed solution? Skypeforlinux snap has exactly the same problem BTW so your app is definitely not the only one affected. If you don't let me know and I'll raise it for you.

datumbox on 31 Aug 2020

I could, but I don't have a Gnome system around to test/confirm and I'm not sure what will happen with #933 if I rename the file again.

pbek on 31 Aug 2020

1713 seems similar, but also seems to be fixed

pbek on 31 Aug 2020

@datumbox, I tried to rename the desktop file in the edge channel (currently building) to qownnotes.desktop, hoping it will then have the correct name later on. Could you please try the edge snap?

pbek on 1 Sep 2020

@pbek Did you push it to stable by accident? It seems that stable is newer than edge:

$ snap info qownnotes
.....
channels:
  latest/stable:    20.9.1  2020-09-01 (7379) 130MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                               
  latest/beta:      ↑                               
  latest/edge:      20.8.10 2020-08-31 (7371) 127MB -

At any case, I tested the both the stable and edge but I don't see the file renamed. The desktop file in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications is still qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop in both versions. As a result when I open the app, I still see the same problem.

Happy to test further if you want.

datumbox on 1 Sep 2020

Seems like the edge build didn't trigger on https://snapcraft.io/build. I triggered the build manually now...Should be done in maybe 25min.

pbek on 1 Sep 2020

just changed channel to edge.
it does work correctly now. Thank you :)
When you change it in stable?

OtharSmirnow on 1 Sep 2020

Ah, thank you.

When you change it in stable?

Next release.

pbek on 1 Sep 2020

@pbek Yeap, works like a charm! Thanks for fixing it. :)

datumbox on 1 Sep 2020

20.9.2

the desktop file of the snap release of QOwnNotes was renamed to qownnotes.desktop
to prevent problems with Gnome

pbek on 3 Sep 2020

👍1

There now is a new release building (stable channel), could you please test it and report if it works for you?

pbek on 3 Sep 2020

@pbek I installed the snap from latest/stable 20.9.2 2020-09-03 (7389).

Now I see two files stored in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications. One is named qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop and one qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop. This causes two duplicate icons of the app to appear on gnome applications dashboard.

Is having two desktop files intentional? Can we lose the qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop?

datumbox on 4 Sep 2020

Maybe that desktop file was there before and wasn't removed by the snap update, there should only be one. I only renamed the file, like for the edge channel. What happens if you uninstall QOwnNotes? Is there still that desktop file? If yes, can you please remove it and install QOwnNotes again.

pbek on 4 Sep 2020

No the file is being installed from scratch; it's not a left over from an earlier installation. Here is what I see:

Uninstalling the snap completely removes both files.
Installing the snap from scratch installs both files.

I'm using the stable channel this time. Perhaps one of the other install scripts is triggered and installs both files?

Happy to investigate more.

datumbox on 4 Sep 2020

Perhaps one of the other install scripts is triggered and installs both files?

Those are for other build systems.

But I see the original PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop get installed by snap with the QOwnNotes.pro install routine:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/496188886/buildlog_snap_ubuntu_bionic_amd64_qownnotes_BUILDING.txt.gz

But that also seems to happen on the edge channel's build process:
https://snapcraft.io/qownnotes/builds/1106554 (I think you might have no permissions to view this).

So did you have the same issue on the edge channel?

pbek on 4 Sep 2020

And for what I see also in the past there always seems that two desktop files might be the desktop files around inside the snap. But I'm not sure why/if they are also made available outside the snap...

pbek on 4 Sep 2020

@pbek I think you are right. It's likely it happened on the edge channel yesterday and we did not notice. I caught it today because I decided to do a full reinstall to check it end-to-end.

But before your commit that renames the file, I am confident though that there was only one file in /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications.

datumbox on 4 Sep 2020

And that one file was qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop?

What's the content of the current two files?

pbek on 4 Sep 2020

That's correct.

They are identical with only difference their name in the exec record:

$ diff /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop
5c5
< Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /snap/bin/qownnotes
---
> Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop /snap/bin/qownnotes

datumbox on 4 Sep 2020

That's interesting. It seems snapcraft took the desktop file that should be used plus the original one, but modified the original one to use the correct path in the snap. I don't know yet how to prevent snapcraft using the original one.

pbek on 4 Sep 2020

@datumbox can you please install the edge snap again and confirm that there are two desktop icons too, so I have a space to test new fixes.

pbek on 6 Sep 2020

@datumbox, you can skip above comment and go straight to the 20.9.3 (stable) release to test

20.9.3

the deployment of the original desktop file is now prohibited when building a
snap with snapcraft to prevent two desktop files being deployed with the snap

pbek on 6 Sep 2020

@pbek Unfortunately the problem persists:

$ sudo snap remove qownnotes 
qownnotes removed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*': No such file or directory

$ sudo snap install qownnotes
qownnotes 20.9.3 from Patrizio Bekerle (pbek) installed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 417 Sep  6 09:51 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413 Sep  6 09:51 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop

$ diff /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop
5c5
< Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /snap/bin/qownnotes
---
> Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop /snap/bin/qownnotes

datumbox on 6 Sep 2020

That's strange. There is no .desktop file deployed in https://launchpadlibrarian.net/496503235/buildlog_snap_ubuntu_bionic_arm64_qownnotes_BUILDING.txt.gz.

pbek on 6 Sep 2020

It is still in there:

Download the actual snap file deployed. (Read here how to get the URLs of your binaries)
Uncompress the snap file (you can use Archive Manager or something similar).
Check /meta/gui/ in the archive. You will see two desktop files: PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop and qownnotes.desktop

Screenshot:

You can confirm this also by checking the snap on the disk:

$ ls -lh /snap/qownnotes/7403/meta/gui
total 30K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285 Sep  6 08:17 PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 285 Sep  6 08:17 qownnotes.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29K Sep  6 08:17 QOwnNotes.png

datumbox on 6 Sep 2020

Thank you for confirming! I really wonder who puts it in there and why...

pbek on 6 Sep 2020

@pbek I think Snap picks up the PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop file because it is in the src directory of the build.

I found this article in the documentation that explains where the desktop files can be deployed. Apparently it also supports getting it from your prime directory.

Unfortunately I have not released myself any application using snaps to tell you how you could blacklist the deployment of specific files. It's worth asking the people at snapcraft. Hopefully it's straightforward.

datumbox on 6 Sep 2020

@datumbox, can you please try the current build from the edge channel, I attempted to remove src/PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop while building the snap.

pbek on 9 Sep 2020

🎉1

@pbek You fixed it!!! :D Thanks a lot for your help!

datumbox on 9 Sep 2020

Oh man, that was a hard one. Thank you for testing. Then I will try to do the same for the production snap for the next release.

pbek on 9 Sep 2020

What version number did you see when running QOwnNotes?

pbek on 9 Sep 2020

Based on the terminal messages I installed 20.9.4.

Here is the full output for the shake of completeness:

$ sudo snap remove qownnotes 
qownnotes removed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*': No such file or directory


$ sudo snap install qownnotes --channel=latest/edge
qownnotes (edge) 20.9.4 from Patrizio Bekerle (pbek) installed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413 Sep  9 21:08 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop

One desktop file as expected.

datumbox on 9 Sep 2020

Ok thank you, I almost feared that QON wasn't built at all because of the override-build config. 😁

pbek on 9 Sep 2020

No worries. Ping me when you do the final release to test one more time if you want.

datumbox on 9 Sep 2020

20.9.4

the original desktop file is now removed while building a snap with snapcraft to prevent
two desktop files being deployed with the snap

pbek on 10 Sep 2020

There now is a new (stable) release of the snap building, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

pbek on 10 Sep 2020

I don't see 20.9.4 on stable yet:

$ snap info qownnotes 
.......
channels:
  latest/stable:    20.9.3 2020-09-06 (7403) 130MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                              
  latest/beta:      ↑                              
  latest/edge:      20.9.4 2020-09-09 (7416) 125MB -

I'll check again later.

datumbox on 10 Sep 2020

@pbek I still don't see v20.9.4 on stable. Did the release went through?

datumbox on 11 Sep 2020

Very strange, it failed to build on Launchpad with rm: cannot remove 'src/PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop': No such file or directory.

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/497062362/buildlog_snap_ubuntu_bionic_amd64_qownnotes_BUILDING.txt.gz

pbek on 11 Sep 2020

Ah, there is another file structure in the release archive. Silly me. Will be fixed in the next release. 😄

pbek on 11 Sep 2020

👍1

20.9.5

fixed removal of the original desktop file while building a snap with snapcraft to prevent
two desktop files being deployed with the snap

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

There now is a new (stable) release of the snap building, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

It seems the duplicate file is back. :( What changed since 20.9.4?

$ sudo snap remove qownnotes 
qownnotes removed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*': No such file or directory

$ sudo snap install qownnotes
qownnotes 20.9.5 from Patrizio Bekerle (pbek) installed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 417 Sep 13 10:04 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413 Sep 13 10:04 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop

datumbox on 13 Sep 2020

I noticed that the revision 7432 which is on edge does NOT have this problem and it deploys only 1 desktop file.

First of all let's check the versions:

$ snap info qownnotes 
....
channels:
  latest/stable:    20.9.5 2020-09-13 (7428) 125MB -
  latest/candidate: ↑                              
  latest/beta:      ↑                              
  latest/edge:      20.9.5 2020-09-13 (7432) 125MB -

Despite both having version 20.9.5, the latest/edge has a new revision. So they are not the same.

Let's install it:

$ sudo snap remove qownnotes 
qownnotes removed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*': No such file or directory

$ sudo snap install qownnotes --channel=latest/edge
qownnotes (edge) 20.9.5 from Patrizio Bekerle (pbek) installed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413 Sep 13 10:21 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop

It has only 1 Desktop file as we expected.

Unfortunately BOTH versions have a much worse problem. They don't fail to start:

# with latest/stable installed
$ qownnotes 
/snap/qownnotes/7428/bin/desktop-launch: line 595: /snap/qownnotes/7428/usr/bin/QOwnNotes: No such file or directory

# with latest/edge installed
$ qownnotes 
/snap/qownnotes/7432/bin/desktop-launch: line 595: /snap/qownnotes/7432/usr/bin/QOwnNotes: No such file or directory

As far as I can tell there is no binary file added for the app in the snap other than the wrapper:

$ find /snap/qownnotes/7432/ -iname *qownnotes*
/snap/qownnotes/7432/command-qownnotes.wrapper

datumbox on 13 Sep 2020

It seems the duplicate file is back. :(

So far it wasn't gone in the stable channel. But the desktop files seemed to be removed in https://launchpadlibrarian.net/497367631/buildlog_snap_ubuntu_bionic_amd64_qownnotes_BUILDING.txt.gz.

What changed since 20.9.4?

Only this: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/commit/adc55a0f8049279a10140d071d41b0b24e1974a1

stable channel

built by launchpad
built from source archive hosted on tuxfamily
deployed to launchpad by https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/develop/build-systems/snap/build-for-launchpad-snap.sh
config: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/develop/build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml

edge channel

built by snapcraft.io
built from git repo directly
config: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/blob/develop/snap/snapcraft.yaml

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

Unfortunately BOTH versions have a much worse problem. They don't fail to start:

Now? That was what I feared in https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/1019#issuecomment-689801157 and must have come in before 20.9.5. Which version of QON did you use the last days?

So the override-build does break the usual building!

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

The struggle is getting real... :( Unfortunately snapcraft does not store the old versions to be able to check but the snap files seems to remain on the internal snap severs: https://api.snapcraft.io/api/v1/snaps/download/0Zs2bQCe724ZzBFiMYAYESxhhx85hj0W_7403.snap

So I downloaded that 7403 revision manually and installed it via snap install 0Zs2bQCe724ZzBFiMYAYESxhhx85hj0W_7403.snap and at least the [program starts. Unfortunately as per your comment, it shows 2 different desktop files. I could "binary search" it until I hit the version that worked AND deployed 1 desktop file. If you have any note / suggestion about the range please let me know because this is going to be messy...

I also tried to see on the source what changed. I compare the develop branch which I assume is the latest with the commit 63fd7f4f73ab019e4428b1af9d945613c5acdf3e which supposedly fixed the duplicate desktop problem:

git diff 63fd7f4f73ab019e4428b1af9d945613c5acdf3e..develop ":(exclude)*/languages/*"
....
diff --git a/build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml b/build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml
index c7294dd3b..502e76c63 100644
--- a/build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@ parts:
     options:
       - CONFIG+=release
       - CONFIG+=snapcraft
+    override-build: |
+      echo Remove PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
+      rm PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
     build-packages:
       - qttools5-dev
       - build-essential
diff --git a/snap/snapcraft.yaml b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
index a5e9aa3b9..2fd05bf02 100644
--- a/snap/snapcraft.yaml
+++ b/snap/snapcraft.yaml
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ parts:
     override-build: |
       echo Remove PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
       rm src/PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
-      ls src
     build-packages:
       - qttools5-dev
       - build-essential
diff --git a/src/build_number.h b/src/build_number.h
index ff0336219..fb7baa25b 100644
--- a/src/build_number.h
+++ b/src/build_number.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define BUILD 759
+#define BUILD 760
diff --git a/src/version.h b/src/version.h
index 313359b27..1a169bb7f 100644
--- a/src/version.h
+++ b/src/version.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define VERSION "20.9.4"
+#define VERSION "20.9.5"

I think the override-build in ./build-systems/snap/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml is to blame.

datumbox on 13 Sep 2020

I'm currently building a new edge snap on snapcraft.io where I try to build the binary manually. Should be done soon.

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

...and I'm building a new stable snap on Launchpad without override-build.

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

👍1

I'm currently building a new edge snap on snapcraft.io where I try to build the binary manually. Should be done soon.

Already failed, trying again...

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

👍1

@pbek Everything works on edge (revision 7443):

$ sudo snap remove qownnotes
qownnotes removed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*': No such file or directory

$ sudo snap install qownnotes --channel=latest/edge 
qownnotes (edge) 20.9.5 from Patrizio Bekerle (pbek) installed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413 Sep 13 16:08 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop

$ snap list | grep qownnotes
qownnotes                20.9.5                      7443  latest/edge      pbek            -

datumbox on 13 Sep 2020

AND you can run QOwnNotes? 😉

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

Yes of course! :)

datumbox on 13 Sep 2020

Great, I now updated the Launchpad Snap config. We'll see at the next release. 😁

pbek on 13 Sep 2020

20.9.6

fixed building snap stable release

pbek on 17 Sep 2020

There now is a new release, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

pbek on 17 Sep 2020

@pbek Sorry for the delay. It seems that the duplicate desktop files problem is back but everything else works as expected. I really don't understand why this is happening as we tested together the latest/edge version and it fixed the duplicate desktop files issue.

$ sudo snap remove qownnotes  
qownnotes removed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
ls: cannot access '/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*': No such file or directory

$ sudo snap install qownnotes --jailmode
qownnotes 20.9.6 from Patrizio Bekerle (pbek) installed

$ ls -lh /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/*qown*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 417 Sep 17 22:52 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413 Sep 17 22:52 /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop

$ diff /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop
5c5
< Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_PBE.QOwnNotes.desktop /snap/bin/qownnotes
---
> Exec=env BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT=/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/qownnotes_qownnotes.desktop /snap/bin/qownnotes

datumbox on 17 Sep 2020

Thank you for the feedback. I don't understand it. The removal and build process are the same on snapcraft.io and launchpad. 😞

pbek on 18 Sep 2020

No .desktop file is processed in https://launchpadlibrarian.net/497964873/buildlog_snap_ubuntu_bionic_amd64_qownnotes_BUILDING.txt.gz

pbek on 18 Sep 2020

@pbek If you download the snap on stable (rev 7455) and check folder /meta/gui/ in the archive you will find 2 desktop files. On the other hand if you download the snap on edge (rev 7457) you will get one desktop file.

How do you deploy the snaps? Do you use travis or some other CI tool? Is there a chance that stable and edge have different configs on their releases?

datumbox on 18 Sep 2020

How do you deploy the snaps? Do you use travis or some other CI tool? Is there a chance that stable and edge have different configs on their releases?

https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/issues/1019#issuecomment-691649567

pbek on 18 Sep 2020

Maybe I see it.

Your deploy xml has a "cd src" command while the prod does not. Thus the file is not deleted on the latter case. Could you confirm?

datumbox on 18 Sep 2020

Your deploy xml has a "cd src" command while the prod does not.

That's because the prod uses the source archive, that is made from the src folder.

Thus the file is not deleted on the latter case.

If no file is deleted the build process breaks. I had that when there was the cd src in until I realized above.

pbek on 18 Sep 2020

I see, thanks for clarifying.

I'm running out of ideas... What we see could be explained by a silent failure of the rm command but if you are sure that when any command fails the build breaks then I'm not sure where to go next. :(

datumbox on 18 Sep 2020

20.9.9

added a snap build to the release

The 20.9.9 release on https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases will have an amd64 snap built on GitHub (currently building on https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/runs/1150478719?check_suite_focus=true). Could you please test that, maybe I'll manage to put it into the snap store automatically.

pbek on 22 Sep 2020

Here it is: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases/download/v20.9.9/QOwnNotes-x86_64.AppImage

pbek on 22 Sep 2020

The 20.9.9 release on https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases will have an amd64 snap built on GitHub.

Just to confirm you want me to download the snap from github and install it manually? If that's what you mean, I don't think this is possible without turning off the snap confinement which might return different results. Is it possible to upload it on snapstore?

Here it is: https://github.com/pbek/QOwnNotes/releases/download/v20.9.9/QOwnNotes-x86_64.AppImage

You meant to link to the snap version, not the Appimage right?

BTW I did check the contents of the snap and it seems that it does not have the 2 icons inside. So it should be OK from that perspective.

datumbox on 22 Sep 2020

Is it possible to upload it on snapstore?

To do that I need to invest some more hours. I will only attempt that if the snap works as desired.

You meant to link to the snap version, not the Appimage right?

sorry, my bad.

pbek on 22 Sep 2020

Gotcha. Is there any way you can manually put that in snapcraft? Just trying to see if there is a way to avoid turning off the confinement while not adding much overload to you.

datumbox on 22 Sep 2020

sudo snap install --dangerous QOwnNotes-amd64.snap

pbek on 22 Sep 2020

@pbek lol. yeah that's what I wanted to avoid :P

Tested and it works like a charm. Only 1 desktop file, the favourites work fine etc. :)

datumbox on 22 Sep 2020

@pbek lol. yeah that's what I wanted to avoid :P

to my knowledge the confinement is still in place since it isn't a "--classic" snap
the snap is just not coming from the store

Tested and it works like a charm. Only 1 desktop file, the favourites work fine etc. :)

sounds great, thank you for testing!

pbek on 22 Sep 2020

20.9.10

the AMD64 stable release snap of QOwnNotes will now be built by GitHub Actions to prevent
two desktop files being deployed with the snap
- the other architectures will still be built by Ubuntu Launchpad

pbek on 23 Sep 2020

There now is a new stable release building, could you please test it and report if it works for you?

pbek on 23 Sep 2020

The new stable snap is already in the store. 😉

pbek on 24 Sep 2020

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@pbek Sorry man, it's a very busy week. I just tested it. Everything works exactly as you expect: the favourites, the number of desktop files, the program, etc. I think it's time to close this epic saga ticket :) Good job and thank you!

datumbox on 24 Sep 2020

Awesome! Thank you for your patience! 😅 We really should have made a different issue for this. But now I'll try to forget how much time was put into it. 😆

pbek on 25 Sep 2020

Qownnotes: Ubuntu gnome desktop file name

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