I wondered as well.

You’re welcome !

if none of the files were handwritten, they probably came from something

Yep, I thought about Flatpak, but no, those are actually located in /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications.

Turns out the files in ~/.local/share/applications were generated when I’d use the Edit Application GUI for adding environment variables to apps.

So, I didn’t loose any app, I just had to wait for them to reappear and then reapply the environment variables.

doesn’t cp error when trying to copy folders without the recursive flag?

Yeah it actually did, but I didn’t think anything of it and just added the flag without thinking 😅

(Because I already forget it most of the time when I do intend to copy directories so I took the habit to mechanically press Home then Ctrl-Right then space dash r…)

Normally only user customized ones go in there, maybe if you use hacky tools like appimage-manager or so they too

Well, turns out those were user customized ones indeed, but that I never wrote myself : for adding environment variables to an application, I’d right-click it in the start menu then Edit Application, which opens a GUI editor that actually writes into ~/.local/share/applications.

So, luckily, I didn’t loose any app : they eventually reappeared on their own and I only had to redo the customization.

Also, that made me realize that I can also use that same GUI to do the edit you suggested.

Hmm, I would find it weird that this feature would have been added just now on that last patch version.

However, I noticed something : on another computer, running flatpaked Konsole on Pop OS, middle click doesn’t work indeed. So, maybe this feature only works when using KDE ?

UPDATE : turns out, the feature just wasn’t enabled. Go to Configure Konsole -> Tab Bar / Splitters -> Behavior -> Close tab on middle-click.

Also, here’s something I like on Konsole that other terminal emulators don’t have : making the tab bar always visible, because I don’t like when the terminal resizes due to going between 1 tab & 2+ tabs.

Unattended

in Shortcuts, remove Ctrl-Alt-T from “Launch” and put it on “Open in New Tab”

That works, thank you !

you can’t close tabs in Konsole with middle click

Actually, that works. Konsole v24.12.1 on KDE neon 6.2

Although I always close all terminal sessions on all devices with Ctrl+D because it’s universal.

Open the konsole settings, enable “use a single process” (or something)

Yeah I did that already thinking it would solve this but I didn’t know there was an additional step to perform 😅

Copy the konsole desktop entry from /usr/share/applications to ~/.local/share/applications

So, I just did something stupid. 😭

• I ran cp /usr/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications not noticing that you didn’t specify the name of the file ;
• I then noticed that it copied many more files than intended, so I ran rm -r ~/.local/share/applications ;
• As I was gonna run mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications && cp /usr/share/applications/org.kde.konsole.desktop ~/.local/share/applications, I noticed a bunch of my apps disappeared, meaning this directory already existed and already had files that weren’t duplicates from /usr/share/applications.

How do I recover from that ?

Thank you

Yes : Breeze GTK theme org.gtk.Gtk3theme.Breeze 6.2.5 3.22 flathub system

So I executed flatpak override --user --filesystem=xdg-config/gtk-3.0:ro and it didn’t output any error, but it changed nothing regarding apps that look bad, unfortunately…

Thanks

What’s your point ?

Here’s the thing though : Flatpaked KDE apps look perfect on GNOME. So I’d like to be able to use the same set of apps on both.