From 9108ea9b8a07a7ddd899d680b1a52e1ea2286bef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elian Doran <contact@eliandoran.me>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:21:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(electron): disable the creation of desktop icon at
 runtime (closes #1488)

---
 config-sample.ini        |  3 --
 electron.ts              |  3 --
 src/services/app_icon.ts | 70 ----------------------------------------
 3 files changed, 76 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 src/services/app_icon.ts

diff --git a/config-sample.ini b/config-sample.ini
index baa026730..cde9ac7c4 100644
--- a/config-sample.ini
+++ b/config-sample.ini
@@ -8,9 +8,6 @@ noAuthentication=false
 # set to true to disable backups (e.g. because of limited space on server)
 noBackup=false
 
-# Disable automatically generating desktop icon
-# noDesktopIcon=true
-
 [Network]
 # host setting is relevant only for web deployments - set the host on which the server will listen
 # host=0.0.0.0
diff --git a/electron.ts b/electron.ts
index dc93e6688..0cd79375b 100644
--- a/electron.ts
+++ b/electron.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import electron from "electron";
 import electronDebug from "electron-debug";
 import electronDl from "electron-dl";
 import sqlInit from "./src/services/sql_init.js";
-import appIconService from "./src/services/app_icon.js";
 import windowService from "./src/services/window.js";
 import tray from "./src/services/tray.js";
 
@@ -19,8 +18,6 @@ if ((await import("electron-squirrel-startup")).default) {
 // Adds debug features like hotkeys for triggering dev tools and reload
 electronDebug();
 
-appIconService.installLocalAppIcon();
-
 electronDl({ saveAs: true });
 
 // needed for excalidraw export https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/4271
diff --git a/src/services/app_icon.ts b/src/services/app_icon.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bf8209f8..000000000
--- a/src/services/app_icon.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-"use strict";
-
-import path from "path";
-import resourceDir from "./resource_dir.js";
-import log from "./log.js";
-import os from "os";
-import fs from "fs";
-import config from "./config.js";
-import { isElectron } from "./utils.js";
-
-const template = `[Desktop Entry]
-Type=Application
-Name=TriliumNext Notes
-StartupWMClass=TriliumNext Notes
-Icon=#APP_ROOT_DIR#/icon.png
-Exec=#EXE_PATH#
-Categories=Office
-Terminal=false
-`;
-
-/**
- * Installs .desktop icon into standard ~/.local/share/applications directory.
- * We overwrite this file during every run as it might have been updated.
- */
-function installLocalAppIcon() {
-    if (!isElectron || ["win32", "darwin"].includes(os.platform()) || (config.General && config.General.noDesktopIcon)) {
-        return;
-    }
-
-    if (!fs.existsSync(path.resolve(resourceDir.ELECTRON_APP_ROOT_DIR, "trilium-portable.sh"))) {
-        // simple heuristic to detect ".tar.xz" linux build (i.e., not flatpak, not debian)
-        // only in such case it's necessary to create an icon
-        return;
-    }
-
-    const desktopDir = path.resolve(os.homedir(), ".local/share/applications");
-
-    fs.stat(desktopDir, function (err, stats) {
-        if (err) {
-            // Directory doesn't exist, so we won't attempt to create the .desktop file
-            return;
-        }
-
-        if (stats.isDirectory()) {
-            const desktopFilePath = path.resolve(desktopDir, "trilium-notes.desktop");
-
-            fs.writeFile(desktopFilePath, getDesktopFileContent(), function (err) {
-                if (err) {
-                    log.error("Desktop icon installation to ~/.local/share/applications failed.");
-                }
-            });
-        }
-    });
-}
-
-function getDesktopFileContent() {
-    return template.replace("#APP_ROOT_DIR#", escapePath(resourceDir.ELECTRON_APP_ROOT_DIR)).replace("#EXE_PATH#", escapePath(getExePath()));
-}
-
-function escapePath(path: string) {
-    return path.replace(/ /g, "\\ ");
-}
-
-function getExePath() {
-    return path.resolve(resourceDir.ELECTRON_APP_ROOT_DIR, "trilium");
-}
-
-export default {
-    installLocalAppIcon
-};