** Also affects: gnome-documents (Ubuntu Zesty)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: gnome-documents (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
- I installed GNOME Books in Ubuntu Software to read an EPUB for school
- and wasted a bunch of time looking for it in the Dash. I finally went
- into the Terminal and typed "gnome-books &". It got the job done for
- reading the EPUB (wasn't an amazing experience, but I didn't need one -
- I needed the information contained in the EPUB).
+ Impact
+ -------
+ The Books app does not show up in any desktop except for GNOME. But there are
not a lot of epub readers on Linux and this restriction does not make sense.
+
+ Test Case
+ ---------
+ From Ubuntu (Unity), install gnome-documents (which contains the Books app).
+
+ Look in the Dash for the Books app and launch it.
+
+ Regression Potential
+ --------------------
+ If gnome-documents is installed, Books will show up in any desktop even KDE
Plasma which already has an epub reader.
+
+ Original Bug Report
+ -------------------
+ I installed GNOME Books in Ubuntu Software to read an EPUB for school and
wasted a bunch of time looking for it in the Dash. I finally went into the
Terminal and typed "gnome-books &". It got the job done for reading the EPUB
(wasn't an amazing experience, but I didn't need one - I needed the information
contained in the EPUB).
Please don't list it in the Software Center if it won't show up in the
Dash. And if you do list it, show it in the Dash. It's confusing and
wastes time, and the average user won't know how to open it in the
Terminal or modify the .desktop to show it in the Dash (what I ended up
doing).
The culprit was OnlyShowIn=GNOME in the .desktop file. I was using Unity
Thank you ^^
-
------------
Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 17.04
Package version: 3.24.0-0ubuntu1
What I expected to happen: open in the dash like any other app
What happened instead: had to open in terminal and mess around with .desktop
files
-------------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-documents 3.24.0-0ubuntu1 [modified:
usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Books.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Fri Apr 28 15:47:21 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-14 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: gnome-documents
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Changed in: gnome-documents (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
** Changed in: gnome-documents (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: gnome-documents (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: gnome-documents (Ubuntu Yakkety)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: gnome-documents (Ubuntu Zesty)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: gnome-documents (Ubuntu Zesty)
Status: New => In Progress
** Description changed:
Impact
-------
The Books app does not show up in any desktop except for GNOME. But there are
not a lot of epub readers on Linux and this restriction does not make sense.
Test Case
---------
From Ubuntu (Unity), install gnome-documents (which contains the Books app).
Look in the Dash for the Books app and launch it.
Regression Potential
--------------------
If gnome-documents is installed, Books will show up in any desktop even KDE
Plasma which already has an epub reader.
+
+ Other Info
+ ----------
+ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is not affected because the Books app is completely hidden
there because it did not yet have .epub support and .djvu support was broken so
it wasn't a very useful ebook app.
Original Bug Report
-------------------
I installed GNOME Books in Ubuntu Software to read an EPUB for school and
wasted a bunch of time looking for it in the Dash. I finally went into the
Terminal and typed "gnome-books &". It got the job done for reading the EPUB
(wasn't an amazing experience, but I didn't need one - I needed the information
contained in the EPUB).
Please don't list it in the Software Center if it won't show up in the
Dash. And if you do list it, show it in the Dash. It's confusing and
wastes time, and the average user won't know how to open it in the
Terminal or modify the .desktop to show it in the Dash (what I ended up
doing).
The culprit was OnlyShowIn=GNOME in the .desktop file. I was using Unity
Thank you ^^
------------
Ubuntu version: Ubuntu 17.04
Package version: 3.24.0-0ubuntu1
What I expected to happen: open in the dash like any other app
What happened instead: had to open in terminal and mess around with .desktop
files
-------------
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.04
Package: gnome-documents 3.24.0-0ubuntu1 [modified:
usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Books.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-20.22-generic 4.10.8
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-20-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.4-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7
Date: Fri Apr 28 15:47:21 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-04-14 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: gnome-documents
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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