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Bug#883734: marked as done (libreoffice: Please consider hiding Math and Start Center .desktops)

Your message dated Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:53:46 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #883734,
regarding libreoffice: Please consider hiding Math and Start Center .desktops
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Source: libreoffice
Version: 1:6.0.0~beta1-2
Severity: wishlist

Test Case
========
>From GNOME Shell, open the Applications Overview and click the Show
Applications button to see the list of apps. Currently, LibreOffice
takes up a whole row on my computer (6 icons) which seems excessive
with GNOME Shell's current design.

Proposal
======
I suggest that we do like Fedora and hide the LibreOffice Start Center
and LibreOffice Math.

Instead of opening a Start Center, it makes more sense for a user to
just open the app they want directly.

I don't think users want to create a mathematical formula just to
create one, but to insert into a document so it makes more sense to
start Math from within the other app. (Obviously, with an app used by
as many people as LibreOffice, you can find a few people who use any
feature, but how common is it?)

If for some reason, you end up deciding to only make the change for
one of the two .desktops, please go ahead and do at least that.

Implementation
===========
There are several ways to do this.

1. Add NoDisplay=true to both .desktops

2. Or, Add NotShowIn=GNOME; to both desktops

3. Or, Split the .desktop and associated AppStream metadata to a
separate binary package that can be optionally installed. Someone
would need to write the AppStream file for Start Center. This is
really nice because anyone can easily either have the .desktop
launcher or not without needing to manually edit any text files.

4. Or, Add an app folder for all the LibreOffice .desktops. This is
what Pop!_OS 17.10 did (Pop is a new Ubuntu flavor from System76). If
we wanted this, I think we'd want to implement this in the gnome-menus
package.

For reference, this issue was originally filed as
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1696250

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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Version: 4:24.2.3~rc1-1+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive
experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1069123

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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