Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-14 Thread Coburn Ingram
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. The workaround I suggested for the individual who burdened all of us with

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-13 Thread Olivier Tilloy
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 8:45 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: > > On 2021-03-11 20:17, Coburn Ingram wrote: > > I looked at the issue you referenced. > > > > It seems to me this is a simple confusion of terms. > > I don't think so. Both Jeremy and Olivier know how it works. The > discussion they had

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-13 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2021-03-12 18:30, Olivier Tilloy wrote: Gunnar is right, and this particular problem has demonstrated that it's hard to find a middle ground that pleases everyone. I'll start by noting that there's a cleaner workaround that doesn't involve hand editing the desktop files in

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-12 Thread Coburn Ingram
You guys are great. This is why open source is awesome. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 9:30 AM Olivier Tilloy wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 8:45 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson > wrote: > > > > On 2021-03-11 20:17, Coburn Ingram wrote: > > > I looked at the issue you referenced. > > > > > > It seems to me

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-11 Thread Coburn Ingram
Please do not remove options that other users like in order to unclutter your own desktop. Perhaps we could have a way to tweak the applications that are shown. There are plenty of utility apps that come default that I do not want to see every time I hit the heads-up key. LibreOffice is not one

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-11 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2021-03-11 19:52, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote: 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

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-11 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
On 2021-03-11 20:17, Coburn Ingram wrote: I looked at the issue you referenced. It seems to me this is a simple confusion of terms. I don't think so. Both Jeremy and Olivier know how it works. The discussion they had on the bug report was focused on the fact that quite a few LibreOffice

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-11 Thread Coburn Ingram
I looked at the issue you referenced. It seems to me this is a simple confusion of terms. You do not have to decide whether or not to block the Startcenter or the Math launcher in the distro. You just have to decide whether they will populate in the dock by default. The dock configuration is

Re: Why is LibreOffice Startcenter hidden from Gnome?

2021-03-11 Thread 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,