snapd strips Exec= lines from .desktop files which should be legitimate

[Björn Michaelsen]

According to: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/snappy/guides/meta/
Desktop files with lines like:

 Exec=${SNAP}.${APP} %U

should be valid. However, libreoffice defines a "libreoffice" app in snapcraft.yaml (https://git.launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/df-libreoffice/+git/libreoffice-snap-playground/tree/snapcraft.yaml?h=xenial#n73), but the exec lines like (https://git.launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/df-libreoffice/+git/libreoffice-snap-playground/tree/setup/gui/libreoffice-writer.desktop?h=xenial#n24)

 Exec=libreoffice.libreoffice --writer %U

still get filtered out, thus rendering these .desktop files useless.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

FWIW, neither does:

 Exec=libreoffice.libreoffice %U

work (from https://git.launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/df-libreoffice/+git/libreoffice-snap-playground/tree/setup/gui/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop?h=xenial#n25)

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

Does 'Exec=libreoffice %U' work? If your command name matches the snap name then you don't need to do 'snap_name.cmd_name' and can just do 'snap_name'. I've seen this work in other desktop files.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

Indeed, unlike documented:

 libreoffice ... %U

instead of:

 libreoffice.libreoffice %U

seems to work. https://git.launchpad.net/~bjoern-michaelsen/df-libreoffice/+git/libreoffice-snap-playground/commit/?id=826a9ab26d72518934c5f3df7df8048aa64fc682

[Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)]

I suspect your setup/gui/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop and setup/gui/libreoffice-writer.desktop are going to suffer from https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/+bug/1616657 though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.