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Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1949291
Title:
LibreOffice has started displaying a donation nag
Status in LibreOffice:
Fix Released
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
I just opened up a spreadsheet (technically a CSV file, but who's
counting), to discover LibreOffice displaying an eye-catching blue
"Your donations support our worldwide community." banner just below
the toolbars and about a toolbar and a half tall.
This irritating nag is apparently supposed to display every 90 to 180
days with no in-application means to disable it permanently, and
there's apparently also a "Help us make LibreOffice even better!"
banner that can appear too.
According to this blog post...
https://www.remembertheusers.com/2019/11/0580-libreoffice-nag-
notices.html
...it is not responsive to configuration overrides within the user
profile and the only apparent solution that doesn't require patching
the source and rebuilding is to create a file containing the following
markup in `$BASEDIR/share/registry`
(`/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/registry` as installed by the Ubuntu
package):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<oor:data xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry";>
<dependency file="main" />
<oor:component-data
xmlns:install="http://openoffice.org/2004/installation"; oor:name="Setup"
oor:package="org.openoffice">
<node oor:name="Product">
<prop oor:name="LastTimeGetInvolvedShown" oor:op="fuse"
oor:finalized="true">
<value>0</value>
</prop>
<prop oor:name="LastTimeDonateShown" oor:op="fuse"
oor:finalized="true">
<value>0</value>
</prop>
</node>
</oor:component-data>
</oor:data>
Regardless of how it's achieved, I think it's tasteless, irritating,
and probably doesn't give a very good image to any office customers
Ubuntu may have downstream for random employees to be receiving nag
banners like that in IT-installed software.
Please consider patching it out or otherwise ensuring it never
triggers in distro-provided builds of LibreOffice.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: libreoffice 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sun Oct 31 04:32:03 2021
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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