[ooo-build] Startup notifications for OpenOffice applications aren't enabled

[Damjan Jovanovic]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

In Ubuntu 9.10 (and earlier), .desktop files for all OpenOffice applications (eg. /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-writer.desktop) come with "StartupNotify=false".

But OpenOffice has supported startup notification (with libsn) for some time now, and manually changing that to "StartupNotify=true" enables startup notifications to work correctly.

The OOO310_m19 build either adds "StartupNotify=true" to the .desktop files or adds nothing, so the "StartupNotify=false" must be something custom in your Ubuntu openoffice package(s).

OpenOffice is a very big application and can take long to start, so its current lack of startup notifications is particularly noticeable.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
Package: openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_ZA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[LarryGrover (lgrover)]

The bug remains present in 10.4 alpha.

[Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov)]

The bug is in openoffice.org_3.2.0.orig-ooo-build-3-2-0-7.tar.gz under desktop/, all the *.desktop.in.in files have StartupNotify=false instead of StartupNotify=true.

The patch is attached, but the bug is probably also in Debian.

Please get it into Lucid.

[Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov)]

This affects every Ubuntu installation, it's easy to fix, and the fix was already found -> nominating it for Lucid.

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[Julien Olivier (julo)]

Come on! What more is needed to fix this bug? It's quite scary to see the time needed to "fix" such a bug, where a working patch has been provided for months...

[Julien Olivier (julo)]

In case anyone cares, OpenOffice already does support startup notification: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16890 . So, if there is a problem, it probably comes from the packaging.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

[Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov)]

I've committed a patch to Apache OpenOffice in revision 1337786, but it will only appear in releases after 3.4.

Meanwhile this is specific to OpenOffice, so I've taken off the LibreOffice tags.