lo-menubar should be pulled in by ubuntu-desktop to better integrate LibreOffice with Unity

[aidanjt]

As per the summary really. One gripe of Unity is lack of LibreOffice integration with Unity's global menu bar.. This is a simple fix as the package which fixes it has already been in the Ubuntu package repository for some time.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.265
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic-pae 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 30 13:14:11 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Mills (jmills59)]

Please consider adding the lo-menubar by default, if only for consistency. In Ubuntu LO is probably one of the two most important default applications shipped with Ubuntu. Yet it is looks so out of place with the rest of the system, it really brings down the look of Ubuntu as a professional OS to be used by those switching from Mac OSX and Windows. Won't this also impact upon the future use of the HUD for LO.

If the lo-menubar is ready to go why is it not installed by default, if there is a technical issue could someone elaborate and maybe a fix can be found to close this gaping whole in the inconsistency of the Ubuntu desktop.

[Francesco Ferraro (ferraro96)]

lo-menubar's bugs are the same from a year.. Please consider fixing them

[Francesco Ferraro (ferraro96)]

*have been the same

[Stéphane Guillou (stephane-guillou)]

Fully agree with #3. The statement about HUD is right, see Bug #957847.
This problem has been around for such a long time, and Precise being supposedly all about polishing, I can't understand why it seems like no energy was put into fixing lo-menubar and integrating LibreOffice into Unity. Now we are left with an office suite that looks completely out of place and inconsistent. And now, HUD is useless with LibreOffice.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

This bug won't be fixed until bug 725250 is fixed which is about moving lo-menubar to the -main reposotory from -universe. That move won't happen until bug 739184 is fixed. Bug 754562 might be a blocker too.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Bug 760879 is a blocker too.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 902646, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[papukaija (papukaija)]

Sorry, the correct bug is bug 912567.