https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497714

Cristiano Guadagnino <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #20 from Cristiano Guadagnino <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #19)
> Aha, that appears to be your problem: XDG_DATA_DIRS is missing
> /home/cris/.local/share. So any .desktop files in
> /home/cris/.local/share/applications are indeed simply being ignored, hence
> the problem.
> 
> Since the test user has the same problem, this is a distro configuration
> issue.

Thank you Nate, this would be great, if it worked.
Before reporting the problem to the distro maintainers I tried "fixing" the
problem by myself.
I edited my user's ~/.profile by adding this to the bottom:
> # Added by me (Cris) on 2025-04-16 to try to fix the problem of uneditable 
> applications (see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497714)
> #export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS:$HOME/.local/share
> export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$HOME/.local/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS

You can see I did two tries, just to be on the safe side (I didn't know if
ordering would affect things).
Unfortunately none of the two tries solved the problem.
When logging in I can see that XDG_DATA_DIRS is correct now, but modifications
to the applications are still ignored.

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