"Additional Drivers" desktop shortcut missing in Ubuntu 17.10

Yes, software-properties-drivers.desktop has NotShowIn=GNOME;KDE;

One reason this was done for Ubuntu GNOME was because the app does not provide a generic app icon (!) so it looks really bad if the icon theme is set to Adwaita for instance.

I think this would need a User Interface Freeze Exception if we wanted to fix this for Ubuntu 17.10.

That “Additional Drivers” has its own .desktop file at all is the result of two ancient accidents.

First, it dates from 2008, before Ubuntu gained a unified System Settings utility. <https://launchpad.net/jockey/trunk/0.1>

And second, Additional Drivers was merged into Software & Updates Settings, but nobody has yet taken the next step of integrating Software & Updates Settings into System Settings.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareAndUpdatesSettings?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=drivers-settings.mockup.png>

But as long as you can access it *from* System Settings (and as well as from Software Updater and Gnome Software), I don’t think it’s appropriate for it to have a .desktop file at all. That it’s a separate app is a technical detail.

FWIW, I said much the same thing more than ten years ago.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlwaysEnableUniverseMultiverse?action=diff&rev2=39&rev1=38>

it's minor and we are not changing that for artful at this point, updating the tag according

Any news?

This bug was fixed in the package software-properties - 0.98.3

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software-properties (0.98.3) eoan; urgency=medium

  * debian/control:
    - required snapd-glib 1.42 (lp: #1830353)
  * data/software-properties-drivers.desktop.in:
    - enable the "Additional Drivers" desktop entry under GNOME, having it
      in "software sources" is not logical (lp: #1710377)

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * softwareproperties/gtk/LivepatchPage.py:
    - livepatch: Always pass a string to SetLivePatchEnabled (lp: #1830348)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 24 May 2019 15:20:34 +0200