https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=464427
Bug ID: 464427
Summary: AppStream links in apps.kde.org sometimes don't show
the app in Discover
Classification: Applications
Product: Discover
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: discover
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: n...@kde.org
CC: aleix...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to https://apps.kde.org/dolphin
2. Click on "Install on Linux", which opens appstream://org.kde.dolphin and
launches Discover
OBSERVED RESULT
Error message saying "Could not open appstream://org.kde.dolphin because it was
not found in any available software repositories.
EXPECTED RESULT
Dolphin's page opens.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
What's happening is that on my distro (Fedora 37), Dolphin's AppStream URL is
appstream://org.kde.dolphin.desktop
not
appstream://org.kde.dolphin
So if I open appstream://org.kde.dolphin.desktop in Discover, it works.
Unfortunately the root cause of this issue is messy handling of the .desktop
suffix in AppStream itself that's baked in because it's a part of the spec.
Because we can't guarantee that the ID on the system and the URL that users
open both agree on whether that ".desktop" sufficis present or absent, and we
should probably try to handle both.
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