[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139505] New: LibreOffice StartCenter is not able to be added to Ubuntu Dock by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139505

            Bug ID: 139505
           Summary: LibreOffice StartCenter is not able to be added to
                    Ubuntu Dock by default
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: thrusce at gmail.com

Ubuntu ships with /usr/share/applications/yourapp.desktop files which allow an
application's icon to be added to the Dock, the taskbar of favorite
applications to the left of the desktop. There is such a file for
libreoffice.startcenter which brings up the Recently Used files, along with a
menu allowing the user to select different LO apps (Writer, Math, etc.) and
certain basic actions (Help, etc).

In Ubuntu, it is not possible to add LibreOffice to the Dock as a freestanding
icon. The option "Add to Favorites" is present in the right-click menu, but it
produces no result.

The workaround is to edit the libreoffice-startcenter file and comment out the
line (near the end) that says "NotShowIn=GNOME;"

What this tells me is that somebody, or some group, consciously decided to make
this use-case scenario unavailable to the end-user. End-users are allowed to
add icons for Writer, Draw, Impress, etc. but may not add an icon for Recent
Documents, i.e. the Start Center. This was apparently seen as a positive
choice, and was deliberately taken.

Please fix this. If this option is not configurable, and not modifiable, but it
remains hackable, I shall continue to hack it till the end of my days. I
consider it more esthetically pleasing, more efficient, and more in line with
my personal workflow. It is convenient and highly useful to me. Please restore
the option to use the StartCenter in the Ubuntu Dock for end-users.

If this was a downstream choice, e.g. by Gnome or Ubuntu, my request is that
someone with the appropriate experience and expertise would adopt this cause,
and lobby the appropriate developers until this is fixed.

I thank you profusely in advance.

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