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Notifications pop-up keep appearing even after disabling notifications
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. Where are you starting? What can you see?
Install Element desktop on Ubuntu 26.04
Disable notifications via Settings > Notifications > Element > slide "Notifications" to the left
Notifications keep appearing, even after restarting Element and restarting the OS.
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
Possible to turn notifications off, but this is not possible on Ubuntu 26.04.
After some sparring with Claude AI, it is only a packaging issue and not an issue of Element (core).
There seems to be some confusion between an `element.desktop` and `element-desktop.desktop` apps. The OS is listening to the latter but only the former is being triggered in some way.
Workaround for now:
```
ln -s /usr/share/applications/element-desktop.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/element.desktop
update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/notifications/application/element/enable false
```
(or write your specific desired notifications settings)
Power cycle/shut down and open Element Desktop.
### Operating system
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
### Application version
Element version: 1.12.20 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.16.0 (65b585f), Vodozemac 0.9.0
### How did you install the app?
https://element.io/en/download#linux
### Homeserver
_No response_
### Will you send logs?
Yes
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