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texinfo package

Info package on Ubuntu Focal comes preinstalled with desktop file

Bug #1859963 reported by AsciiWolf
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Bug Description

The "info" package that is preinstalled on Ubuntu Focal ships with a "info.desktop" file that adds a "TeXInfo" desktop launcher displayed among other apps. The launcher opens a terminal application that is confusing and user unfriendly for many users. Users that actually want to use info can do it using a terminal. Please, consider removing the desktop file or at least set it to not show among other apps.

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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

Adding "NotShowIn=GNOME;" (without quotes) to /usr/share/applications/info.desktop could be sufficient.

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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

Maybe GNOME should just hide all Terminal=true apps in a folder called "Terminal applications" or something? Debian is adding more and more of these, and it's annoying.

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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

This is how all the preinstalled apps look like on a clean, minimal Ubuntu 20.04 installation.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in texinfo (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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AsciiWolf (asciiwolf) wrote :

It probably won't be fixed by the Debian package maintainer so this needs to be patched in Ubuntu (for example by adding the line from comment #2).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Seems like it would better if Debian reverted that change but meanwhile that will resolve the issue in our default sessions
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-settings/20.04.3

Changed in ubuntu-settings (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Released
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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 1859963] Re: Info package on Ubuntu Focal comes preinstalled with desktop file

Hi

> It probably won't be fixed by the Debian package maintainer so this
> needs to be patched in Ubuntu (for example by adding the line from
> comment #2).

If Ubuntu think that this is the correct way, fine with me. But Gnome3
is not the only Desktop, and some users *might* want interesting stuff,
too. So I leave this to the Ubuntu maintainers.

(Debian maintainer here)

Best

Norbert

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

@Norbert, it's not the ideal solution no, those .desktop are not really good desktop applications and ideally they would be dropped in Debian&Ubuntu, meanwhile I don't want to add a delta to texinfo in Ubuntu so that will do the trick

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote :

Hi Sebastian,

> @Norbert, it's not the ideal solution no, those .desktop are not really
> good desktop applications and ideally they would be dropped in

What do you do on the Ubuntu side with say
 julia.desktop
which starts a julia shell?
Similarly: ocaml, R, SageMath, ... there are quite a lot of applications
with Terminal=true?

Hide all of them in Gnome?

Best

Norbert

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Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev
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