Comment 13 for bug 1696250

The decision to hide the LO startcenter launcher was recently questioned in a thread at the ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2021-March/018966.html

I too would like that launcher become visible again. It's not only about the visual impression in the "Start Applications" view, but the technique for hiding the LO startcenter launcher prevents you from having it among the "Favorites" in the Dock. Myself was in the habit of replacing the Writer/Impress/Calc icons in the Dock with the startcenter one.

Also, as pointed out in comment #12 above, there are use cases where the LO startcenter plays a role on its own merits.

Debian didn't hide it, btw. While they hid Math, they chose to keep startcenter visible.

Please consider to drop hide-startcenter-desktop-file.patch.