looks more like a KDE issue rather than a flatpak issue
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I use gnome and it works with custom Icons so π«₯
Yeah I'm a heavy flatpak user on both Gnome and KDE and this only happens on KDE for me. Maybe it'll get sorted in Plasma 6.
I use flatpak and I actually like it. It is one of the ways I can get up to date packages on Debian.
Man up and use unofficial repos that break your system like the rest of us
I don't get it. Do you have two versions of Firefox installed?
Don't know about the OP, but I only have one version installed. If I don't have it open, a single icon shows on the task bar. If I press that icon, FF opens and a second icon shows up, that represents only the opened FF, while the original icon remains.
What are you talking about ? isn't the firefox icon on the left a standard app from a distro repo instead of a flatpak like the one on the right ?
In that particular screenshot I believe youβre right: the one on the left is Firefox ESR while the icon on the right is whatever flatpak version available.
But I know what OP is referring to as it is a open bug currently, the DE donβt doesnβt recognize the launched instance as the pinned program due to the way Flatpak launched apps. Not an issue with Firefox in particular
I actually took the screenshot myself and yes it is a bug* specifically with Flatpak.
i have no issues with flatpak, once i found out how to fix gtk scaling and theming issues on kde. here's a link if anyone has those problems as well https://bugsfiles.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=135846.
I use the Firefox flatpak on multiple different desktops and distros and I've never seen this issue. All on wayland (no difference on x11 either). Weird.
I'm using KDE + Firefox Flatpak + Papirus Icons and I haven't had this issue (so far). Could it be an icon pack issue or something similar? Otherwise yeah it's either KDE or the flatpak
PEBKAC
Is this really a flatpak issue? I've been dealing with this with Firefox periodically for many years, even before flatpak
I run flatpak firefox and kde wayland and have no such issue
I never intend to use a flatpak or snap, and avoid them like the plague. The whole concept is incredibly ugly to me, and wasteful of computer resources.
The whole concept is incredibly ugly
Depends on the viewpoint. As a software consumer, sure. As a software producer though, not having to deal with with tons of different packaging formats and repositories for different distributions and versions is a blessing.
Oh.. dudeβ¦ Fanboys wonβt like thatβ¦
the only reason to use flatpaks is if your system doesnt come with a good package manager and repositories (pacman+aur, nix, etc), and dont want to build from source.
snaps, on the other hand, should be avoided at all costs imo.
Or if the repos contain outdated versions of the software. And yes, snaps are cancer, still cannot avoid them. π₯²
Could you elaborate on snaps? I've used them here and there and people seem to have really strong opinions on snap that I just don't understand.
Tied to proprieatry backend, snap store looks like ass and runs like one, spawns loop devices that mess up the /mnt folder, tied to fake .deb packages that install snaps instead. Basically, a lot of proprieatry nonsense that St. Ignucius frowns upon.
Yikes! I'm going to have to do more reading, I guess. My experience with snap is exclusively limited to installing certbot on RHEL.