LibreOffice Writer has no icon in Unity and is labeled "LibreOffice Small Device Format Importer"

I'm experiencing this issue as well in natty (AMD64) beta 1

I'm having the same problem on 11.04 (dev branch).

Adding bamf, not really an LO issue.

interestingly this is working normally for me. what's the output of ps aux |grep writer?

Hi Alex. The output from the command is below.

jason@zoop:~$ ps aux |grep writer
jason 22567 0.0 0.0 4156 864 pts/0 S+ 08:52 0:00 grep --color=auto writer
jason 27773 0.1 2.0 218328 79980 ? Sl 06:57 0:07 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin -writer -splash-pipe=5

mine is:

rafy@rafy's Lappy~$ ps aux |grep writer
rafy 3943 0.9 2.4 247700 100148 ? Sl 13:21 0:01 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin -writer /LOCATIONOFDOC/test.doc -splash-pipe=5
rafy 4065 0.0 0.0 4160 880 pts/1 S+ 13:24 0:00 grep --color=auto writer

This issue is triggered by the /usr/share/applications/libreoffice-javafilter.desktop file from package libreoffice-filter-mobiledev which has the same Exec line as writer.

having only LO-writer installed => no issue
installing LO-filter-mobiledev => no issue
restarting session => issue
removing LO-filter-mobiledev => issue
restarting session => no issue

Since it is assigned in unity, I will not workaround it in LO by not shipping the second desktop file.
Closing as invalid in LibreOffice.

Thanks...removing libreoffice-filter-mobiledev does fix the problem.
What was that package supposed to do?

Seems like there is plenty of informatoin here to start debugging this. Should the desktop team be working on this?

This other issue can be related https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/741995

Reopening in LibreOffice as this was not fixed in unity 3.8.8. Considered for the workaround solution in 3.3.2-1ubuntu3.

Intermediate workaround commited as:

 http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git;a=commit;h=c0a1e706367d0ab0521e577ced7c0699ee48e65b

Please reopen the issue in LibreOffice once this is fixed in bamf, I will remove the workaround then.

This bug was fixed in the package libreoffice - 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu3

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libreoffice (1:3.3.2-1ubuntu3) natty; urgency=low

  * make build dep on xulrunner-dev alternatively depend on firefox-dep (LP: #740815)
  * cherry-pick from debian:
     - enable is (icelandic) l10n (LP: #751746)
  * add unity quicklist support (LP: #720716)
  * workaround for unity icon issue (LP: #732412)
  * regenerated control file and refresh patch queue
 -- Bjoern Michaelsen <email address hidden> Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:01:19 +0200

THe Desktop team made a workaround for the release, but this is still worth fixing in an SRU.

How is the status on this for Oneiric? Should I remove the workaround?

the bug is not fixed but you should probably drop the workaround and we should get dx to look at the issue this cycle, we can still add the workaround back later if needed