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Thanks jsimonrichard for the report, you're right, and it's fixed in 9.30.0-2.

The PKGBUILD rewrote upstream's Exec=AppRun --no-sandbox %U by appending its own %u, which left two field codes on the line. The spec allows at most one, so GLib rejected the entry. The %u was redundant anyway: %U already covers the x-scheme-handler/todoist entry in MimeType.

The Exec line is now:

Exec=env DESKTOPINTEGRATION=false /usr/bin/todoist --no-sandbox %U

While I was in there I also fixed two validation errors inherited from upstream: the shipped [Desktop Action new-window] group was never declared with an Actions= key, and image/jpeg was listed twice in MimeType. The installed file now passes desktop-file-validate cleanly, and uwsm app -- todoist.desktop launches the app here on Hyprland.

I've also added a check in build() that fails the build if the Exec line ever ends up with more than one field code again, so this won't silently come back on a future version bump.

Hello, it looks like the .desktop Exec line is failing under uwsm.

The installed desktop file currently has:

Exec=env DESKTOPINTEGRATION=false /usr/bin/todoist %u --no-sandbox %U

Per this spec, an Exec= line may contain at most one of the field codes %f, %F, %u, %U. Having both %u and %U is invalid and is rejected by GLib.

Reproduce (on a system with uwsm, e.g. Omarchy/Hyprland):

grep '^Exec=' /usr/share/applications/todoist.desktop
uwsm app -- todoist.desktop

Expected failure:

Desktop entry has conflicting args: "%u", "%U"

Hello fcrespo82, sorry i didnt read your email till now.

I will defently take a look.

I need to check if this is something related with your local env, like desktop enviroment, themes, etc, or is something could be affection more users.

Thanks

Hey rafaelco, thanks for maintaining this package.

I was frustrated that when using a light theme the tray icon was barely visible, and that the deeplinks for Quick Add and Ramble weren't working. I took the problem into my own hands and hacked together a fix for these issues. I'm currently using this patched version and it seems to be working well.

I'm not sure if this kind of patch is appreciated or even allowed on the AUR (though I believe it should be fine). I created a GitHub repo with the changes I made. If you could kindly take a look and, if you think it improves the package, consider merging it.

Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone, I really appreciate you flagging this as outdated as soon as it was released it notified me and I'm aware of the issue. I'd like to let you know that I'll try to update every Friday. Apologies for the delay this week, the update took longer than expected.

Hello everyone, I introduce myself as the new maintainer of todoist in this repo. Thanks to Carreter for their instructions and Sergey for accepting me into that role.

Although still relatively new at this, any support is much appreciated. If anyone wants to become a co-maintainer, they can reach out to me here or email the one listed on my profile page.

If you ever notice the package is out of date, please flag it and it'll notify me!

updated PKGBUILD:

# Based on the template from https://daveparrish.net/posts/2019-11-16-Better-AppImage-PKGBUILD-template.html
# Maintainer : Sergey Kostrukov <sergey at kostrukov dot com>
# Contributor : Tianrui Wei <archlinux_aur at mail dot tianrui-wei dot com>
# Contributor : Marcio Silva <marcionps at gmail dot com>

_pkgname=todoist

pkgname="${_pkgname}"-appimage
pkgver=9.21.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="The to-do list to organize work & life."
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://todoist.com/"
license=('custom:Commercial')
depends=('zlib' 'fuse2' 'appimagelauncher')
options=('!strip' '!debug')
_appimage="${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
source_x86_64=("${_appimage}::https://electron-dl.todoist.net/linux/Todoist-linux-${pkgver}-x86_64-latest.AppImage")
noextract=("${_appimage}")
sha256sums_x86_64=('77aeb0cafe1da059d185a48bf6e7fa58c14c90ae7aa072c596ffec078a3ad924')

prepare() {
  chmod +x "${_appimage}"
  ./"${_appimage}" --appimage-extract
}

build() {
  # Adjust .desktop so it will work outside of AppImage container
  sed -i -E "s|Exec=AppRun|Exec=env DESKTOPINTEGRATION=false /usr/bin/${_pkgname} %u|" \
    "squashfs-root/${_pkgname}.desktop"
  # Fix permissions; .AppImage permissions are 700 for all directories
  chmod -R a-x+rX squashfs-root/usr
}

package() {
  # AppImage
  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage"

  # Desktop file
  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${_pkgname}.desktop" \
    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"

  # Icon
  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
  cp -a "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/"
  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/todoist.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps"

  # Symlink executable
  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
  ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
}

Hey everyone, I've stopped using todoist in favor of obsidian. If anyone wants to take over maintaining this package, drop a comment or email me at willow@carreteroc.me and I'll give you instructions on how to keep the package up to date.

Cheers!

Hey @bspire - thanks for flagging this out-of-date so consistently. Would you like me to add you to the list of maintainers? I'm not using Todoist anymore, so I'd like to hand over the package to someone else. Happy to provide you/anyone else that wants to help out with instructions on how to update the package, it's pretty straightforward.