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Shortcuts in the desktop should be symlinks #11282

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Tiagoquix opened this issue Sep 20, 2024 · 0 comments
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Shortcuts in the desktop should be symlinks #11282

Tiagoquix opened this issue Sep 20, 2024 · 0 comments

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Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1726604483
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 40 KDE
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: N/A
  • GPU: N/A

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

When Steam creates a desktop shortcut after clicking to install a game, it creates a .desktop file in both ~/Desktop and ~/.local/share/applications.

This has a problem that it isn't treated as a proper shortcut (containing an arrow shortcut icon), which is the behavior on Windows.
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(The arrows.)

To fix it, Steam would have to create a symbolic link to the same file in ~/.local/share/applications, therefore treating as a symlink and correcting the behavior in the desktop files, instead of duplicating the same .desktop file for both locations.

See also my report on KDE's side: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=493050

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