xdiagnose adds an unusual item to the dash / applications menu

Bug #994048 reported by Dylan McCall
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xdiagnose (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
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Bug Description

xdiagnose is installed by default in Ubuntu 12.04, and its .desktop file adds it to the Accessories section of any applications menu.
This is not an application we can expect a user to open out of interest, figure out and happily use: it has a focus on Bugs and Workarounds, and all of its checkboxes do serious things. Instead, it clutters the dash and makes Ubuntu harder to explore.

I'm assuming xdiagnose is a dependency of ubuntu-desktop for a good reason, so this is just a request to please add NoDisplay=true to xdiagnose.desktop. This will hide it from the dash, and people will be able to open it directly by using the xdiagnose command.

Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Changed in xdiagnose (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package xdiagnose - 2.7

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xdiagnose (2.7) quantal; urgency=low

  [ Oliver Grawert ]
  * port all program code to new python3 conventions
  * adjust shebang lines for all python scripts to use python3
  * update debian/rules and control for python3 support
  * remove unused debian/pycompat file
  * switch test suite to python3
  * make test suite skip testing of directories
  * add dependency on python3-apport
  * make launchpadlib usage optional until it is ported to python3
  * adjust apport-gpu-error-intel.py for new apport API
  * xdiagnose/applet.py fix string handling of subprocess.Popen
  * fixes (LP: #1013171)

  [ Bryce Harrington ]
  * Add a couple preliminary edid tools
  * Fix apt_install to not use chroots
  * Install general.lib
  * Don't show xdiagnose in the menu (LP: #994048)
  * Build depend on both py2 and py3 versions of distutils-extra, required by dh_auto_clean
 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:00:23 -0700

Changed in xdiagnose (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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