<table><tr><td style="">mak added a comment.
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<blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid #a7b5bf; color: #464c5c; font-style: italic; margin: 4px 0 12px 0; padding: 4px 12px; background-color: #f8f9fc;"><p>Alternative to <a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D23302" style="background-color: #e7e7e7;
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color: black;text-decoration: line-through;">D23302</a>. According to the AppStream documentation (<a href="https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Application.html" class="remarkup-link" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Application.html</a>),<br />
adding an AppStream metadata file with multiple launchable tags will prevent AppStream<br />
info generators from parsing desktop files to determine metadata,</p></blockquote>
<p>I don't think this will do what you intend. What will actually happen here is that an AppStream generator will not *merge* in data from any of the desktop files into the final metadata collection, only being limited to what is in the .desktop file. Having the two <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">launchable</tt> tags though will make software centers ask the user which app they want to launch if they click on the "Launch" button in a software center, which in this case are both identical.</p>
<p>If you just want to hide a .desktop file from being processed by AppStream, there is a much simpler solution: Just add <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">X-AppStream-Ignore=true</tt> to the .desktop file in question, and it will be hidden (unless it is referenced in a metainfo file of course, in which case it may still be used as data source for that metainfo file).</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R124 System Settings</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D23306">https://phabricator.kde.org/D23306</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ngraham, apol, mak, Plasma<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart<br /></div>