This is a Kolibri plugin which generates Linux desktop launchers and icons for Kolibri channels. These files are created automatically in $KOLIBRI_HOME/content/xdg/share. This plugin is intended to be used inside a Kolibri desktop application such as https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.learningequality.Kolibri.

Install the plugin from pypi:

pip install kolibri-app-desktop-xdg-plugin

Enable the plugin in Kolibri and generate launchers:

kolibri plugin enable kolibri_app_desktop_xdg_plugin
kolibri manage app_desktop_xdg_update_launchers

Additional desktop launchers will be generated automatically when channels are added or removed. For these launchers to appear on your desktop, you will need to add their location to the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. To do this in most Linux distributions, create a file named /usr/lib/systemd/user-environment-generators/61-kolibri-app-desktop-xdg-plugin with the following contents, then log out and log in again:

#!/bin/bash
XDG_DATA_DIRS="$HOME/.kolibri/content/xdg/share:${XDG_DATA_DIRS:-/usr/local/share:/usr/share}"
echo "XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_DATA_DIRS"

You can substitute the path to Kolibri's home directory for $HOME/.kolibri.