[snap] launchers in app's dock menu do launch general LO

[Francois Thirioux]

LO 7.0.2
Ubuntu Focal

1) right-click on LO icon in dock (white LO icon which does launch the home page with apps and recent docs)
2) select e.g. Calc

It does launch general LO (home page with apps and recent docs), not Calc.

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Thank you for reporting your bug to help make Ubuntu better!

Help me understand a little bit what is going on.. assuming you have the LO snap installed and no LO debs (just to avoid any confusion), if you right click on the Calc icon, you do not see Calc open up - is that right?

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Right, every right click menu shortcut launches the same app as left click on LO global launcher (the white one). Only LO snap installed.

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Ok I got it.
In:
/snap/libreoffice/current/meta/gui
there is the launcher libreoffice.desktop.

Unfortunately it contains bad actions launchers, as far as I understand that:

Actions=Writer;Calc;Impress;Draw;Base;Math;

[Desktop Action Writer]
Name=Writer
Exec=libreoffice

[Desktop Action Calc]
Name=Calc
Exec=libreoffice

[Desktop Action Impress]
Name=Impress
Exec=libreoffice

[Desktop Action Draw]
Name=Draw
Exec=libreoffice

[Desktop Action Base]
Name=Base
Exec=libreoffice

[Desktop Action Math]
Name=Math
Exec=libreoffice

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Ah yes this is it!

I've added a fix that is building now:
https://code.launchpad.net/~hellsworth/+snap/libreoffice-1902148

Once complete, it should upload to the store under a branch called lp-1902148 for testing.

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Well, the build has failed?
So is the store branch lp-1902148 active?
(I saw a former commit, I'll get LZO too?)

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Yeah.. I was sure this would work because i tested my addition locally in a little quick script. I reran the lp build and it failed in the same way (good to know it's consistent). I did a local build last night and ran out of memory becuase libreoffice is a beast so I'll try again on an unused system to try and debug why it's failing..

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Which interpreter did you try in your local script? Doing

'#!/bin/sh
set -x
for app in base calc draw
            do
                App="${app^}"
                sed -i \
                    -e "s#Icon=libreoffice7.0-$app#Icon=/usr/share/icons/gnome/256x256/apps/libreoffice7.0-$app.png#" \
                    -e "s#^Exec=libreoffice7.0 --\(.*\)#Exec=libreoffice.\1#g" \
                    -e "/^Name=$App$/{$!{N;s/^Name=$App\nExec=libreoffice$/Name=$App\nExec=libreoffice.$app/;ty;P;D;:y}}" \
                    /tmp/$app.desktop
            done'

returns the same bad substitution error

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

There were a couple of issues with my sed. I reproduced the issue locally and believe that I have fixed it and it's building on lp now.

https://code.launchpad.net/~hellsworth/+snap/libreoffice-1902148

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

Ok well I've been going down a rabbit hole here, trying to fix /meta/gui/libreoffice.desktop. There is a strange problem here.. I don't know what is creating libreoffice.desktop instead of using the startcenter.desktop file that should fix the issue.

However.. In my testing and comparison to the debs, I came across https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1696250 which removed the startcenter and math icons all together. This was done as a cosmetic change really. However since we'd like to see the snap behave *just like* the deb, I will just remove these icons as well from the snap.

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

I am fully against hiding any LibreOffice icons from the Shell.

[Heather Ellsworth (hellsworth)]

After some discussion weighing the pros/cons of removing the icons from the snap, we decided that it's best to keep the icons to keep the snap as close to the upstream package as possible.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The most recent activity suggests it's wontfix?

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Hi,

Is there any progress on this?
It's still an open issue in Noble snap.