Libertine Scope

Way to filter out apps and/or icons

Bug #1558746 reported by Christopher Townsend
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Libertine Scope
Status tracked in Trunk
Release
Fix Released
Low
Larry Price
Libertine Scope 1.1
Trunk
Fix Released
Low
Larry Price
Libertine Scope 1.1
libertine-scope (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Larry Price

Bug Description

This probably goes in the wishlist bucket, but it would be nice if there was a way to preset a blacklist to filter out apps & icons that we don't care to be shown.

For example, when using libertine-scope with Puritine, the OpenJDK Java 7 Policy Tool and Panel Manager are displayed, but we would probably want those to be hidden.

Related branches

lp:~larryprice/libertine-scope/blacklist-setting
Christopher Townsend: Approve
Diff: 167 lines (+85/-4)
5 files modified
data/libertine-scope-settings.ini.in (+5/-1)
libertine-scope/query.cpp (+25/-2)
libertine-scope/query.h (+7/-0)
po/libertine-scope.pot (+1/-1)
tests/test_query.cpp (+47/-0)
Christopher Townsend (townsend)
summary: - Way to filter out apps or icons
+ Way to filter out apps and/or icons
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Definitely on the wanted-list, needs some investigation.

Changed in libertine-scope:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Larry Price (larryprice) wrote :

Agreed that OpenJDK Policy Tool and Panel Manager are weird things to show. They don't have the "no-display" field set, which I guess means that they should be available to the user? A few ways in which we could block them:

* If you poke into the*.desktop for OpenJDK Policy Tool and Panel Manager, they both have some kind of "Settings" category that they are a part of. We could filter out the Settings categories, but I worry that would leave us in a bad place if there's some other useful app that ends up in this category.
* A literal blacklist where we just filter out apps by name. This seems evil because the constant updating of some list of apps and the unavailability of those apps if access is desired.

Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

I'm thinking the libertine scope needs a scope configuration added to handle this, and a blacklist of categories and a blacklist of specific apps to filter out.

Larry Price (larryprice)
Changed in libertine-scope:
assignee: nobody → Larry Price (larryprice)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Larry Price (larryprice)
Changed in libertine-scope:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Christopher Townsend (townsend)
Changed in unity8-lxc (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
affects: unity8-lxc (Ubuntu) → libertine-scope (Ubuntu)
Changed in libertine-scope (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Larry Price (larryprice)
Revision history for this message
Stephen M. Webb (bregma) wrote :

Released in version 1.1+16.04.20160506-0ubuntu1.

Christopher Townsend (townsend)
Changed in libertine-scope (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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