postmarketos-hidden-desktop-entries: apply changes to existing installations

Right now, the package writes the launchers that should be hidden to /etc/skel. They will get copied to new user's home directories. But if the user is running an installation and upgrading the package, the entries in the home directory will not get updated. This is better than nothing, at least the hidden desktop entries are set properly in fresh installations (and match the apps installed by default).

However, it would be nicer if changes from this package were applied after upgrading.

TODO:

• make phosh respect additional paths in XDG_DATA_DIRS
• don't place the hiding symlinks in /etc/skel/.local/share/applications, but in a new path, and add it to XDG_DATA_DIRS

Make sure that default applications like eog for images are still working properly with this approach (they should because of mimeapps.list, but just in case).

Related: !1583 (closed)

added help wanted type::feature ui-phosh labels

Actually, I didn't test that, but I think we could create a link ~/.local/share/applications/pmOS-hidden-entries that would point to the directory where we put our desktop files.

That way, we go from a link to each app we want to remove in skel, to a single dir, that is owned by the package and in, say /etc/pmOS/hidden-desktop-entries. We could still have the links to the nodisplay.desktop there.

By Antoine Fontaine on 2020-09-24T16:24:38

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