App doesn't show up in app drawer or on desktop

[syberon]

i found the issue; joplin doesn't adhere to the freedesktop xdg standard.
i configure these to keep a clean home folder, but joplin ignores these. I confirmed this by placing the files in the folder my os expects and voila, it shows up.

export XDG_CONFIG_HOME='$HOME/.config'
export XDG_DATA_HOME='$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/local/share'
export XDG_CACHE_HOME = '$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/'

once i knew this was the issue, i found following github and forum posts:

Follow the Freedesktop XDG base directory standard

Adherence to XDG Base Directory Specification

Personally I think there is a good reason for Joplin to fully support the XDG Base Directory Specification. There was a previous PR raised for this but it was closed (Desktop: Resolves #6085 Add initial support for XDG Folder Specs by BeatLink · Pull Request #6152 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub) as well as a number of other GH "issues" and a forum post that gained no traction so this isn't a new topic by any means, I'm most certainly not the first who has brought this up or thought about it. It ha…

for now, i will leave this as is, but i don't know if i'll be able to update joplin from within the app, now it's not in the expected directory.
should i not be able to update it, i'll use appimagelauncher.

but tbh, i do think, programs should adhere to this as it wouldn't break anything. everybody has these defined by default; i just changed the location of these variables.