✨ Desktop: Add Firefox shortcut to Desktop#256
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Users wanted a clickable browser on the desktop rather than having to open GNOME Activities and type "firefox" to launch one. Copy the Firefox `.desktop` file into `~/Desktop/` with mode `0755`. On Ubuntu 24.04 Firefox ships only as a snap, so the system file lives at `/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktop` rather than the usual `/usr/share/applications/` location, and the destination on the user's desktop keeps that same name. A `.desktop` file with `+x` alone is not enough — GNOME's `ding` desktop-icons extension on 24.04 also requires a `metadata::trusted` GVFS xattr before it will launch the shortcut; without it the user sees an "Invalid Permissions on Desktop File" popup. Setting that xattr via `gio set metadata::trusted true` normally needs a DBus session bus, which does not exist during Ansible provisioning. Wrap the call in `dbus-run-session` so a throw-away bus is spawned just long enough for the write to reach GVFS's on-disk metadata under `~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/`, which the user's GNOME session then picks up on first login. A symlink from `~/Desktop/` to the system file was the first attempt and is cleaner, but `ding` still refuses to launch symlinked shortcuts without the trust xattr, so the task copies the file instead.
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Merging: transient issue with PseudoDojo not fixable here, no need to run CI again just to have it pass. |
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Users wanted a clickable browser on the desktop rather than having to open GNOME Activities and type "firefox" to launch one.
Copy the Firefox
.desktopfile into~/Desktop/with mode0755. On Ubuntu 24.04 Firefox ships only as a snap, so the system file lives at/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/firefox_firefox.desktoprather than the usual/usr/share/applications/location, and the destination on the user's desktop keeps that same name.A
.desktopfile with+xalone is not enough — GNOME'sdingdesktop-icons extension on 24.04 also requires ametadata::trustedGVFS xattr before it will launch the shortcut; without it the user sees an "Invalid Permissions on Desktop File" popup. Setting that xattr viagio set metadata::trusted truenormally needs a DBus session bus, which does not exist during Ansible provisioning. Wrap the call indbus-run-sessionso a throw-away bus is spawned just long enough for the write to reach GVFS's on-disk metadata under~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/, which the user's GNOME session then picks up on first login.A symlink from
~/Desktop/to the system file was the first attempt and is cleaner, butdingstill refuses to launch symlinked shortcuts without the trust xattr, so the task copies the file instead.