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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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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Now we end up with having 2 desktop icons... – Sati Dec 02 '21 at 07:03
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A better solution would be to add to favorites from the omnibar as shown in this post – Sati Dec 02 '21 at 10:23
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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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