<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, guys. I was able to update-proof my launcher by putting it in ~/.local. Now we just need to idiot-proof it. We need to make this launcher discoverable and usable by the average end-user, without editing any files.</div><div><br></div><div>The workaround I suggested for the individual who burdened all of us with their personal preference by getting this launcher to not show in anyone's Gnome is for them to put it in a folder in their applications menu, so they do not see it.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 4:16 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <<a href="mailto:gunnarhj@ubuntu.com">gunnarhj@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2021-03-12 18:30, Olivier Tilloy wrote:<br>
> Gunnar is right, and this particular problem has demonstrated that<br>
> it's hard to find a middle ground that pleases everyone. I'll start by<br>
> noting that there's a cleaner workaround that doesn't involve hand<br>
> editing the desktop files in /usr/share/applications/: you can instead<br>
> copy the desktop file you're interested in to<br>
> ~/.local/share/applications/ and edit it there. It won't be overridden<br>
> with the next package update, and XDG-compliant desktops will prefer<br>
> your local version to the system-wide one.<br>
> That said, I'm absolutely open to reconsidering that patch. Can we<br>
> please move back that discussion to<br>
> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1696250" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1696250</a>, to<br>
> keep everything in one place ?<br>
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Thanks Olivier. I submitted a comment on the bug report and re-opened it.<br>
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Rgds,<br>
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Gunnar Hjalmarsson<br>
<a href="https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj</a><br>
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