[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 124853] LO .desktop files belong to root and not user

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124853

--- Comment #3 from alucardnoir at gmail.com ---
Unfortunately I've moved all my machines to just Solus and have no VM
experience. I tried a live key of KDE NEON that someone had claimed on the
Solus Forums presented the user with the same problem but it doesn't come with
LO.

That being said, I have found this forum thread about ubuntu and LO from 2015
that seems to describe this exact problem:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=77079

And would also like to add that kyrios123, Solus developer and repo maintainer
has already "fixed" the problem in the latest LO package for Solus (as can be
seen here: https://dev.getsol.us/D6229 ), so the problem wouldn't even be
reproducible in Solus at this point.

Again, all I can contribute is this quote from the currently main Solus dev:

"The issue with LibreOffice desktop files being owned as root is the result of
LibreOffice actually having a build system which installs the desktop files
into the completely incorrect location, which is
/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg, then symlinking to /usr/share/applications/. As
a result, the desktop file on the desktop is a symlink to that xdg directory,
which is owned by root.The correct procedures would be:

1.File a bug upstream to have the LO desktop files be installed into the
correct directory instead of symlinking

2.Updating our package until upstream fixes it to move the contents and
potentially reverse the direction of the symlink in the event LO relies on
those desktop files being in that xdg directory. "

I am sorry I can not be of more assistance in this matter.

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