Bug#710591: libreoffice: Missing .desktop files for all LibreOffice programs.

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:20:23AM -0400, Alex Vanderpol wrote:
> As stated in the bug subject, the .desktop files for all of the LibreOffice
> applications are missing.

Sorry, but this is not true completely.

$ for i in *beta1-2*deb; do dpkg --contents $i | grep \.desktop$; done
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1537 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/base.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2519 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/calc.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root       459 2013-05-29 02:19 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/xsltfilter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1429 2013-05-29 02:19 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/startcenter.desktop
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2013-05-29 03:08 ./usr/share/applications/libreoffice-startcenter.desktop -> /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/startcenter.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1720 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/draw.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1030 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/qstart.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2234 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/impress.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root       208 2013-05-29 02:30 ./usr/share/templates/soffice.ods.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root       204 2013-05-29 02:30 ./usr/share/templates/soffice.odg.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root       218 2013-05-29 02:30 ./usr/share/templates/soffice.odp.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root       207 2013-05-29 02:30 ./usr/share/templates/soffice.odt.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1585 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/math.desktop
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2423 2013-05-29 02:31 ./usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xdg/writer.desktop

So yes the symlink in /usr/share/applications - except the "startcenter"
(aka. "LibreOffice") - are missing... But "startcenter" is there ...

> As such, LibreOffice applications do not appear in the GNOME Shell overview,
> and I imagine this means they also won't show up in any menus that populate
> using the .desktop files in "/usr/share/applications".

... and that one should appear in GNOME shell and those menus.

> This makes it somewhat difficult to easily find and launch LibreOffice or any

Wrong :)

> of its applications.

true (you need to go via the startcenter)

But yeah, will look why the other symlinks went away...

Regards,

Rene