I know this is a meme, but in case it’s has a serious undertone, the question in this case is - who really cares?
Those are desktop files. You usually don’t manually look into that folder in the terminal. It’s not like a snap where your lsblk output is being cluttered.
This is such a minor problem that it’s barely worth being talked about. It’s a mere “best practice was ignored” case that has Z E R O impact on performance, maintainability or usability.
That would be a valid complaint, however, I just installed krita for testing on arch running with KDE and there’s only one entry.
However, there’s also only a single krita entry in the list of .desktop files so idk what exactly is going on there. Maybe under KDE, it behaves differently, no clue.
It won’t show up there because the files have NoDisplay set to true, which hides them from the desktop app view, but they still show up in other places. Here’s Nautilus’ open with dialogue (where I noticed this):
Okay but that would mean you have to open /etc/share/applications in a file explorer which you - usually - don’t really do. Or maybe I’m just too much of a terminal guy to do it.
I don’t know if you’re ragebaiting or are just a massive fucking asshole tbh, but when someone develops an application for free and for fun for anyone to use, I’m not complaining about too many fucking .desktop files.
It doesn’t mean it is free that it has to be mediocre. I also do work for “free and fun” and I don’t see it as a reason to take a shit on my project. Either accept criticism or just keep the damn code for yourself.
I’m not sure about this case because I don’t use flatpak that much, but to be honest I hate when I install an Electron based program such Freetube, and even though I installed the BIN binary (arch btw, not happened this on Debian based distros) for some reason my package manager decided to install the whole Electron framework with DE included. I get that it depends on it to work, but I don’t need 40 Electron packages to show in my Wofi that I would never use, is so ugly. The same with Qt programs and any single KDE app (but I understand in this case)
I mean, yeah I understand that Freetube depend on Electron to work, but why when installing Steam this is not the case?
but why when installing Steam this is not the case?
Because steam has no application-dependencies, it bundles everything into one binary, including the electron binary, and ships everything in one go. However, steam still has system-dependencies that have to be installed and will pop up in rofi.
I know this is a meme, but in case it’s has a serious undertone, the question in this case is - who really cares?
Those are desktop files. You usually don’t manually look into that folder in the terminal. It’s not like a snap where your
lsblkoutput is being cluttered.This is such a minor problem that it’s barely worth being talked about. It’s a mere “best practice was ignored” case that has Z E R O impact on performance, maintainability or usability.
My application menu did get cluttered with multiple krita entries.
Which was a minor annoyance.
That would be a valid complaint, however, I just installed krita for testing on arch running with KDE and there’s only one entry.
However, there’s also only a single krita entry in the list of .desktop files so idk what exactly is going on there. Maybe under KDE, it behaves differently, no clue.
It won’t show up there because the files have
NoDisplayset to true, which hides them from the desktop app view, but they still show up in other places. Here’s Nautilus’ open with dialogue (where I noticed this):Okay but that would mean you have to open /etc/share/applications in a file explorer which you - usually - don’t really do. Or maybe I’m just too much of a terminal guy to do it.
This isn’t a directory, it’s the list of apps that show up when you right click a file and select ‘Open With’.
You’re encouraging mediocre work
I don’t know if you’re ragebaiting or are just a massive fucking asshole tbh, but when someone develops an application for free and for fun for anyone to use, I’m not complaining about too many fucking .desktop files.
It doesn’t mean it is free that it has to be mediocre. I also do work for “free and fun” and I don’t see it as a reason to take a shit on my project. Either accept criticism or just keep the damn code for yourself.
Yeah you’re ragebaiting good one lmao
I’m not sure about this case because I don’t use flatpak that much, but to be honest I hate when I install an Electron based program such Freetube, and even though I installed the BIN binary (arch btw, not happened this on Debian based distros) for some reason my package manager decided to install the whole Electron framework with DE included. I get that it depends on it to work, but I don’t need 40 Electron packages to show in my Wofi that I would never use, is so ugly. The same with Qt programs and any single KDE app (but I understand in this case)
I mean, yeah I understand that Freetube depend on Electron to work, but why when installing Steam this is not the case?
Because steam has no application-dependencies, it bundles everything into one binary, including the electron binary, and ships everything in one go. However, steam still has system-dependencies that have to be installed and will pop up in rofi.
I guess it depends of a bunch of things, but why when programmers package a program don’t do the same more often?