I don’t know a good way to explain this, but let’s try.

Imagine that these icons…

…are all Google Chrome, but three different profiles. That is what I want.

What happens, whether creating .desktop files by hand or using kmenuedit is this:

  • the launcher will respect the unique icons I choose
  • I can force Chrome not to group the icons
  • The panel icons still all show the default Chrome icon…

…instead of using the icon I chose for each instance.

The reason, for the interested, is that I want to have a work profile, a non-profit profile and a personal profile which all open and can be pinned with a unique icon.

I’ve gotten far enough that having separate menu entries with unique icons and individual .desktop files and ungrouped panel icons seems like progress, but Plasma seems to treat any instance that points at the final binary as “the same.”

  • blackberries33@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know the answer to your question. But I recently discovered the PWA addon for firefox, and it can accomplish most of what you are describing with the icons and launchers; however it’s not profiles, it installs certain websites as apps in a new firefox runtime, and only allows one tab open at a time per pwa.

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    1 year ago

    @ja2 I have had the same problem! Because of a separate issue, I had an entry for firefox and firefox with a specific environment variable, and it would randomly choose which icon to say my session was coming from.