The “Keep a single Dolphin window” option doesn’t work for Super-E.

It only works for third-party apps (e.g. “Show in folder” for browser downloads).

Yeah, I’m not a fan of this, but I understand some people are. Thank you for the suggestion !

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.

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

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

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.