This is like a pretty small/insignificant issue. But I installed some third party application (firebird-nspire on AUR) and the icon persists across restarts after uninstalling it. The thing is, its a blank icon and it points to an empty or non existent file.
Ive posted the a pic here for more information. The applications directory in /usr/local/share doesn’t even exist since I don’t have any globally installed apps so I don’t understand why this icon isnt gone after restarting my system.
The application im referring to is Firebird Emu and you can see how it has an empty icon in the first pic (edited)
Again its not some critical issue but its still irritating for that to show up
Ive run a global search from root for files with that name or containing anything similiar and come up with nothing so I don’t get why it persists through restarts of my system. For context, Ive fully removed all files related to that firebird packages from all places including the cache folders.
I added that ghost icon to my desktop and it shows it to be a nonexistent file. I’m very sure this is some bug with the way kde cache’s the file icon.
It’s not a huge critical issue to my system but its pretty critical to my OCD lol.
I tried everything you could think of like clearing the yay cache + restarting, removing every possible firebird-nspire file, etc which all didn’t work.
After managing to fix it later on, I believe the issue is definitely some sort of bug with the way kde cache’s/stores the desktop file. What I believe to be the case is that some content of an internal config file probably had the info that this firebird application exists even when all the files related to it were deleted so I had to attempt to get kde to rewrite that internal file. This could explain why that icon persists across restarts and hopefully help others in the future until this bug is addressed.
I managed to fix it by doing some sketchy stuff. I created another random file in that same directory (/usr/local/share/applications) which I believe refreshed kde’s caching since it did remove that firebird icon entry from the menu completely. I then deleted that created file again as well as the applications directory (the directory only had firebird so it would’ve been empty otherwise). I restarted and it seems to have been fixed.
Yes I am on Plasma 5. I definitely didn’t know about that command before and will keep note of it if I run into that problem again in the future! I also look forward to the release of Plasma 6 as well.
Another possibility is that you’re out of filesystem watches, so the folder that the .desktop file got created in was being watched properly, but the system didn’t have the resources to notice the addition or removal. Installing kde-inotify-survey can help detect and fix this problem.
