Gnome3 .desktop file problem

[z49x2vmq]

After installing 1.0.179, Joplin is not shown in gnome's application list.

The Joplin icon is back when I remove version string, "1.0.179.940", from "appimagekit-joplin.desktop" file.

Environment

Joplin version: 1.0.179
Platform: Linux
OS specifcs: Fedora 31

Steps To Reproduce

1. Install or upgrade Joplin as guided in joplinapp.org

Describe what you expected to happen:
Joplin application menu item(Application Icon) is created in gnome's application list

Logfile

[nezartarbin]

This may be related:
I built the same version from source, but executing the resulting .AppImage file does nothing.

Here is a relevant discussion:
https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/appimage-from-current-master-not-running-on-linux/5667

[miciasto]

FYI that discussion is more about the current development version which is having a few build issues.

This discussion might be more relevant to 1.0.179:
https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/unable-to-start-1-0-179-on-linux/5373

[thearchivalone]

I don't know if this will solve your issue or not, but I created an unofficial patch that can't be currently merged into the main code due to it directly altering the AppImage and whatnot outside of being built from source. Just replace the version name with v1.0.179 in the instructions and you should be good to go.

#2332 (comment)

There's also this, which may be useful too. Nice find, @laurent22

[domhnallw]

I've hit the same error as @z49x2vmq on my Ubuntu 18.04 x86-64 desktop.

The .desktop file gets created, but it's got the version number inserted as the last line on its own rather than being a key-value pair:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Joplin
Comment=Joplin for Desktop
Exec=/home/<redacted>/.joplin/Joplin.AppImage
Icon=joplin
StartupWMClass=Joplin
Type=Application
Categories=Office;
1.0.179.940

If you try to use update-desktop-database to get Gnome to re-examine the file, it reports:

Could not parse file "/home/<redacted>/.local/share/applications/appimagekit-joplin.desktop": Key file contains line ?1.0.179.940? which is not a key-value pair, group, or comment

The culprit seems to be a reference to $APPIMAGE_VERSION here, but I don't know enough about .desktop files to know if this is incomplete or what.

I know removing this last line in the file makes Gnome happy and that all of a sudden I get a desktop icon.

Hope this helps.

[harmlessdrudge]

Also with a fresh install on Linux Mint 19.3 using wget.
I got the icon by deleting the last line.
Last line on a .175 version installed on another machine is
X-AppImage-BuildId=1UhCx8mcsln5JbH9RzSLD1tiHsy

[mrwulf]

Fixed by #2479