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Asked: 2017-05-21 16:16:48 +0800 CST

Okular - Can't add to GNOME taskbar

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I can't seem to add Okular pdf reader to my GNOME taskbar. Every other program I can "add to favorites" and it shows up on the taskbar. Not Okular. It's the sole KDE program I use, does that have something to do with it?

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  1. Best Answer

    As of August 2017, this is still an issue.

    You can workaround it without interfering with the package manager like this:

    cp /usr/share/applications/org.kde.okular.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/okular.desktop
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  2. Just stumbled about this issue too. Seems this is because of a (seemingly stupid) limitation in the gnome shell:

    As pointed out in this answer on unix.stackexchange, gnome shell expects the desktop file to be named exactly like the command for the "Add to Favorites" to work. I consider this a bug (since for all kde applications, the .desktop file typically is named like org.kde.appname.desktop; gnome shell should definitely be able to favorite kde apps; and gnome can't expect to change kde's desktop file naming scheme just because they cannot handle arbitrary desktop file names).

    As a workaround (though this might interfer with the automatic package management), you could rename the desktop file to the name that gnome-shell expects:

    sudo mv /usr/share/applications/org.kde.okular.desktop /usr/share/applications/okular.desktop

    This works on my system - but I have to say I'm not running Ubuntu at the moment but arch linux.

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