Public bug reported: 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) ** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug focal third-party-packages -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1949291 Title: LibreOffice has started displaying a donation nag To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1949291/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
