Budgie task bar and Vivaldi progressive web apps

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I’m not sure if this is a budgie or a vivaldi browser problem but I have this situation:

I created what vivaldi calles a a progressive web app for my Lyrion music server and attached it to the budgie taskbar with a favorite star. I also connected vivaldi browser itself to the taskbar.

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Now when I click the Lyrion icon ( on the right-hand side) it openes the Lyrion progressive web app. When I close this and click on the vivaldi icon (on the left-hand side) budige opens vivaldi. Perfect!

However when I:

  1. open Lyrion
  2. open vivaldi
  3. close vivaldi

vivaldi is no longer available as the two icons get “combined” and click on either of them switch to the running one without opening the other. The two icons change to

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and are somehow glued together.

Is this a bug? can I somehow tell Budgie not to combine the two icons? Is this a vivalid progressive app problem?

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The StartupNotify key is enabled by default in the Vivaldi launcher.
This keeps the app indicator active for about 15 seconds even if you close it before the time expires, at least it works like that in GNOME.
Removing the key should change the behavior:

desktop-file-install \
    --dir=${HOME}/.local/share/applications \
    --remove-key=StartupNotify \
    /usr/share/applications/vivaldi-stable.desktop

See also: Recognized desktop entry keys | Desktop Entry Specification

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