Package: gnome-shell Version: 48~rc-1 Severity: important Tags: trixie, sid Control: affects -1 + gnome gnome-core X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
We have a GSettings override to set Debian-appropriate apps to appear in the Dash in new installations, which means that upstream changes to the list of apps in the Dash are not reflected in Debian. Currently in Debian we have: > favorite-apps=[ > 'firefox-esr.desktop', > 'org.gnome.Evolution.desktop', > 'rhythmbox.desktop', > 'libreoffice-writer.desktop', > 'org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', > 'org.gnome.Software.desktop', > 'yelp.desktop' > ] — debian/gnome-shell.gsettings-override overriding upstream's: > org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop > org.gnome.Calendar.desktop > gnome.Nautilus.desktop > org.gnome.Software.desktop > org.gnome.TextEditor.desktop > org.gnome.Calculator.desktop — data/default-apps/dash.txt Epiphany → Firefox seems a reasonable swap. I believe Fedora does the same. Upstream used to have Firefox in this position here too. Do we want Calendar instead of Evolution? Upstream replaced Evolution with Geary and Calendar in 2019 (commit d0507ec6 "Update default favorite apps list", https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/merge_requests/907) and then removed Geary in 2021 (80e22740 "schemas: Define default app grid arrangement", https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1700). We should probably remove Rhythmbox? We dropped it from the gnome metapackage. Upstream replaced it with gnome-music in 2019 (commit d0507ec6 again) before dropping it entirely in 2025 (commit fb289fa0 "data: Reorganize default apps", https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3642). I don't know whether Libreoffice Writer is there intentionally, or just because upstream used to have OpenOffice and then Libreoffice. It was removed upstream in 2014 (6a142c42 "Remove some apps from the default favourite apps list", https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735682). Adding Yelp (help browser) seems reasonable, although upstream never did. TextEditor was added in 2024 by commit c991239c "data: Add Text Editor to the dash by default" with justification "to prevent it from being too empty by default", so I think we only need to do that if our list becomes very short. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3135 Calculator was added in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3642 with no justification that I can see. smcv
