local .desktop files after package deinstallation should be removed/modified

[Wiktor Grebla]

When a user modifies her menu and sets an item as invisible, a .desktop
file for this item is created. When she decides to remove the package
~/.local/share/applications/$appname.desktop remains untouched. If the
package will be installed again (say half a year later) it will remain
invisible, and most probably a user won't remember the fact of using
e.g. alacarte to hide its menu item.

I guess that we should try to remove all .desktop files when removing a
package, or at least check if it has been hidden or not (I know it
sounds trivial, but not necessarily is trivial).

I was also wondering if it has any impact on the menu behavior, i mean
how much time does it take to parse these unused files when opening a
menu.

I'm not really sure where this report should go, so again, if it's not valid here, please reject it and suggest where it should be reported.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Marking it as 'ubuntulove' task.

[Pete Ryland (pdr)]

The proposed change in bug #62304 would fix this as well.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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