Duplicate .desktop files

[Reuben Thomas]

The kdeconnect package ships two desktop files, which appear to be duplicates: /etc/xdg/autostart/kdeconnect.desktop, and /etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop. They both run the kdeconnect daemon. Presumably only one is needed. In particular, it means that for a user to disable the daemon, they need to disable it in two places!
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-12-23 (276 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190805)
Package: kdeconnect 1.4-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-47.51-generic 5.4.55
Tags: focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-08-29 (25 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip docker lpadmin plugdev sambashare signald src sudo vboxusers video
_MarkForUpload: True

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

That does indeed sound strange, though looking at https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/amd64/kdeconnect/filelist I only find one of them. Could you please list which Ubuntu release and version of kdeconnect you are running? Either by running `apport-collect 1896408` or manually adding the version numbers. That makes it easier to track down where the second file might come from.

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

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[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

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[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

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[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Just to confirm:

$ dlocate /etc/xdg/autostart/kdeconnectd.desktop
kdeconnect: /etc/xdg/autostart/kdeconnectd.desktop

And:

$ dpkg -L kdeconnect|grep autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart
/etc/xdg/autostart/org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/kdeconnectd.desktop

Is it possible that this file was not deleted when I upgraded from Bionic?

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

(I just double-checked, and the kdeconnectd.desktop file is indeed in the file list of the version of kdeconnect on Bionic.)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

>Is it possible that this file was not deleted when I upgraded from Bionic?

Might be on to something here. That would certainly explain why I couldn't find it.

With the added information I'm setting this back to new. :)