From f065c1feecbe34e20fd0899ca1b3974022036ba2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xmnlz <lemmeq9@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:28:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] anytype: fix desktop entry

(cherry picked from commit 25b3f18c18a5784245e99660e6052e92d209fcc2)
---
 .../an/anytype/0003-remove-desktop-entry.patch    | 15 +++++++++++++++
 pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/package.nix               |  1 +
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/0003-remove-desktop-entry.patch

diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/0003-remove-desktop-entry.patch b/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/0003-remove-desktop-entry.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e772bdff71c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/0003-remove-desktop-entry.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/electron/js/util.js b/electron/js/util.js
+index da18f41ad0..bb07ec9f21 100644
+--- a/electron/js/util.js
++++ b/electron/js/util.js
+@@ -314,7 +314,9 @@ class Util {
+ 		if (!is.linux) {
+ 			return;
+ 		};
+-
++		// NixOS: desktop entries are managed by the package, avoid 
++		// writing user-local anytype.desktop which goes stale on updates
++		return;
+ 		const { execFile } = require('child_process');
+ 		const home = process.env.HOME || '';
+ 		const dataHome = process.env.XDG_DATA_HOME || path.join(home, '.local', 'share');
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/package.nix
index f38501ae555d..5179ed28a139 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/an/anytype/package.nix
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ buildNpmPackage (finalAttrs: {
   patches = [
     ./0001-feat-update-Disable-auto-checking-for-updates-and-updating-manually.patch
     ./0002-remove-grpc-devtools.patch
+    ./0003-remove-desktop-entry.patch
   ];
 
   buildPhase = ''