Leftover upstream Vocalinux desktop entry shadows Voculinux in launchers #52

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2026-11-06T20:06:26Z

xavierk commented

2026-11-06 20:06:26 +00:00

Found on the acceptance machine (Void, niri, DMS). A previous upstream Vocalinux install left ~/.local/share/applications/vocalinux.desktop (Name=Vocalinux, same subtitle and a similar icon) pointing at a ~/.local/bin/vocalinux-gui wrapper whose venv no longer existed. The launcher showed both 'Vocalinux' and 'Voculinux'. Picking the stale one failed silently and looked like Voculinux not launching. Proposal: the one-time legacy import (legacy_import.py) detects a user-level vocalinux.desktop / vocalinux-gui whose target is missing, logs it, and shows a one-time notification telling the user which file to remove. It must not delete the user's files automatically. The README migration notes should say the same.

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fix(launcher): report leftover upstream launchers that no longer start

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fix(launcher): report leftover upstream launchers that no longer start #54

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fix(legacy): flag leftover upstream Vocalinux launchers (#54)