Does this even make sense to you? I acknowledge I am not an experienced Linux user yet, but this seems most weird to me; why would KDE Plasma offer me to update GNOME?
For context, I am using Debian 13 Stable, which I installed just with KDE Plasma - so I’m not running more than one DE, nor did I install more than this.
Don’t worry, I get KDE updates in GNOME.
It’s not the entire DE. You have application installed made for Gnome and that is one of its dependencies.
That is a runtime that some flatpaks use as well.
Gnome and KDE as projects are a bunch of things, from login managers, to compositers, desktop UIs, and user application (like Gnome “System Monitor” or KDEs “Plasma System Monitor”).
You can actually mix and match some pieces and they just work, but especially the user apps because both teams put in work for interoperabilty or Freedesktop standarization.
So you can have an app that uses KDEs shared libs and an app that uses the Gnome projects libs on the same issue with rarely any issue. Even more so with flatpak since the all of the files those apps see are in what is called an overlay filesystem, so your kde apps get a layer of files jist for KDE apps to build off of and gnome apps get a layer of files just for them to use. In flatpak these are called runtimes. That is what is being updated here.
but especially the user apps because both teams put in work for interoperabilty or Freedesktop standarization.
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Oh, I see; well, thank you for the detailed explanation! So it’s nothing weird, after all
Looks like you’ve installed a package with flatpak that depends on GNOME
