KDE Wayland and Chrome WebApps (shortcuts)

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Good day,

I’m trying to use KDE with Wayland on nixos unstable (Currently on plasma 5.22.5). One problem I facing is that chome “apps” created through chrome web shortcuts are not recognized as having separate window and icon but rather merged into Chrome windows list.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Launch google chrome (or chromium)
  • Go too youtube.com
  • Go to browser menu, “More tools” → “Create shortcut…”
  • Select “Open as a new window” in the popup

Expected behavior:

  • Youtube appears in a task bar as a separate entry with it’s own youtube icon. This how it actually works both on KDE X11 and Gnome Wayland

Actual behavior:

  • Youtube window (though without browser controls as expected) appears just as another chrome window in the task bar

This functionality if critical for me personally - I use all Google apps in separate windows (Gmail, Calendar, etc.) and have taskbar shortcuts (latte-dock) to switch between them.

Again, this works fine in GNOME Wayland but I’d rather stay with KDE.

Thank you in advance.

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Hoped that the latest merged plasma 5.23.1 will fix it but it doesn’t :confused:

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My conclusions about GNOME having it working on Wayland were wrong - I simply used Chrome w/o wayland support :confused:

Running chrome in wayland mode make it behave on-par with KDE unfortunately - no distinction between separate-window-web-apps and regular browser windows:

Screenshot from 2021-11-02 01-07-03
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(both are listed as Chrome instead of YouTube vs Chrome)

Looks like chrome(ium) web apps are completely broken in wayland in terms of being recognized as a separate app by a window manager.

Has anyone else experienced it? Any workarounds?

Posted a wider cry for help here: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/qkfi5x/chrome_web_apps_on_wayland/