Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Hi Coby!

On 2021-03-11 18:05, Coburn Ingram wrote:
> Just a minor issue for me. I prefer to use
> /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop as my launcher
> for LibreOffice. But I have to edit the file to make it able to appear
> in the launcher bar. Apparently, somebody had a meeting, and said, "No,
> we don't want this launcher to work in Ubuntu. It clutters up the
> desktop." I respectfully disagree. I would like this available as an
> option to the end-user.

Personally I agree. I made it a habit to have that launcher in the dock 
instead of three app specific ones. But suddenly it refused to show up 
in the dock...

The background seems to be <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1696250>. But 
there they mostly talk about the number of LO related icons in "Show 
Applications". The use case where somebody (like you and me) wants to 
have the Startcenter icon in the dock seems not to have been considered.

@Olivier: Any chance that hide-startcenter-desktop-file.patch could be 
reconsidered?

-- 
Cheers,

Gunnar Hjalmarsson
https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj

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