[GNC] create desktop icons for GNC 4.9 Flatpak on Ubuntu

[Geert Janssens]

I'll note the "no suitable backend" is complaining it can't interpret the file 
"/home/jeffrey/Desktop/Dad.desktop". That is the desktop entry file itself and 
I find it very suspicious this one is passed to gnucash in flatpak. According 
to the contents of the desktop file Jeffrey posted gnucash should have 
received the following file to open:
/media/jeffrey/'Mac Drive'/Ledgers/Dad/Dad.gnucash

That doesn't make sense to me. And if that's what is happening that's not a 
bug in flatpak, but a bug in desktop file handling. Somehow I doubt that 
though.

So we are probably missing something else here. Perhaps we are missing minor 
details that are different in how we do things vs how Jeffrey does them.

As I'm late in this thread I'm first adding some clarifications and remarks to 
older messages. I'll defer more questions to the end.

Regards,

Geert

Op woensdag 30 maart 2022 03:39:16 CEST schreef Adrien Monteleone:
> The 'no suitable backend' is clueing me to an issue with that particular
> file and not having the right backend installed/enabled.
> 
> But Jeffrey already said opening the file directly works fine and is
> using XML. (usually one sees that error when trying to use one of the db
> backends since XML is not an issue)
> 
> I'm going to hazard there is some weird flatpak bug at play and it seems
> to have been resolved as of 21.10.
> 
> Maybe there is a solution or workaround, or maybe upgrading to the next
> LTS (22.04, due out next month) will do the trick.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 3/29/22 5:51 PM, David H wrote:
> > Jeffery,
> > 
> > I have the Gnucash flatpak "user" version installed. The gnucash flatpak
> > wiki desktop shortcut (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Flatpak) works for me
> > on Ubuntu 21.10 after updating my file location (see below)  The one step
> > not mentioned is to right click the desktop shortcut and select "Allow
> > launching" - this updates the desktop shortcut icon and if you don't do
> > this it just opens in text editor.
> 
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