I installed a program from Discover but can't see it from menu, why?

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As per title, I installed qbittorrent from Discover but can’t see it from menu, why?
Should it appear or it’s okay and I should start every program via terminal with flatpak run?

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I would think it should appear in the menu.

Try this (if you did a system-level installation):

ls /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications

or this (if you did a user-level installation):

ls ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications

Can you see a file there called org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent.desktop or similar?

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user@fedora:/var/home/user$ ls /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/
mimeinfo.cache                        org.kde.okular-ghostview.desktop
org.kde.elisa.desktop                 org.kde.okular-kimgio.desktop
org.kde.gwenview.desktop              org.kde.okular-md.desktop
org.kde.kcalc.desktop                 org.kde.okular-mobi.desktop
org.kde.kmahjongg.desktop             org.kde.okular-odp_calligra.desktop
org.kde.kmines.desktop                org.kde.okular-odt_calligra.desktop
org.kde.kolourpaint.desktop           org.kde.okular-pdf.desktop
org.kde.krdc.desktop                  org.kde.okular-powerpoint_calligra.desktop
org.kde.okular-comicbook.desktop      org.kde.okular-pptx_calligra.desktop
org.kde.okular.desktop                org.kde.okular-rtf_calligra.desktop
org.kde.okular-djvu.desktop           org.kde.okular-tiff.desktop
org.kde.okular-doc_calligra.desktop   org.kde.okular-txt.desktop
org.kde.okular-docx_calligra.desktop  org.kde.okular-wpd_calligra.desktop
org.kde.okular-dvi.desktop            org.kde.okular-xps.desktop
org.kde.okular-epub.desktop           org.kde.skanpage.desktop
org.kde.okular-fax.desktop            org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent.desktop
org.kde.okular-fb.desktop

Yes, there it is!

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Thanks, a couple more things:

  1. To check that this directory is being looked at for application entries:
echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS
  1. To look at the actual file and see if anything is weird there:
cat /var/lib/flatpak/exports/share/applications/org.qbittorrent.qBittorrent.desktop
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Thank you so much for your efforts, but I just wanted to know if this is normal behavior or a bug. I saw it was a problem, but unfortunately I can’t debug it anymore.

I’ll be switching to a different distribution than Kinoite, which I’m more used to.