In YP master and Langdale release, gvim binaries doesn't generate(arm64 or x86-64) when you build vim recipe with X11 distro features enabled. This causes gvim.desktop not to work with matchbox-desktop applications. This works in honister release but I haven't tried on krikstone.

Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) 4.1+snapshot-97b258985a59fd4cfe982f694f95018dcab22c61 qemuarm64 ttyAMA0

qemuarm64 login: root
root@qemuarm64:~# vi
vi           view         vigr         vigr.shadow  vim          vim.vim      vimdiff      vimtutor     vipw         vipw.shadow
root@qemuarm64:~# g
gapplication               getopt                     glib-compile-resources     gobject-query              groupdel                   grpck                      gsettings-schema-convert   gtk-update-icon-cache
gconf-merge-tree           getopts                    glib-compile-schemas       gpasswd                    groupmems                  grpconv                    gtester                    gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0
gconftool-2                getsubids                  glib-genmarshal            grep                       groupmod                   grpunconv                  gtester-report             gunzip
gdbus                      getty                      glib-gettextize            gresource                  groups                     gsettings                  gtk-launch                 gzip
getkeycodes                gio                        glib-mkenums               groupadd                   groups.shadow              gsettings-data-convert     gtk-query-immodules-3.0
root@qemuarm64:~# QEMU: Terminated
runqemu - INFO - Cleaning up
runqemu - INFO - Host uptime: 7197657.37